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All Gosling can eke out is a small grunt/sigh that will basically knock the air right out of your lungs.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
The best RuPaul's Drag Race moments can take the air right out of your lungs — others break the wind in your sister's general direction.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
Giving away these air rights is forever, for pickleball courts, exercise equipment and a storage shed.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
With the air rights, that increases to $2,500 per square foot, based on conservative estimates.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
The Texans dialed up a play-action shot on their first play of the game, and Collins torched Indianapolis rookie JuJu Brents — who might have been left alone by a safety when he was supposed to have help — for a 75-yard touchdown, knocking the air right out of Lucas Oil Stadium.
—The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
The Shubert Organization sold the air rights belonging to its Imperial Theater to Extell for some $51 million.
—Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2023
Extell, in particular, has mastered the trade secrets of the industry, especially the sale and transfer of air rights.
—Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2023
Salt Lake City first sought eminent domain for the air rights over the family’s property in 2004, about five years after the city first acquired the airport, to expand the runway and fly more planes in and out of it.
—Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1922, in the meaning defined above
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“Air right.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20right. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Legal Definition
air right
noun
: a property right to the space above a surface or object (as a building) that may be sold or leased for development purposes
make use of the air rights above the Terminal—Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
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