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Recent Examples of airliner
Authorities have been able to identify 55 sets of remains and are continuing to recover the fuselage of the commercial airliner from the Potomac.
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
That’s about double the speed that current commercial airliners fly.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
If successful, Overture could become the first commercial supersonic airliner since the Concorde, a Mach 2 aircraft developed in the 1960s by the British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Sud Aviation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
That’s about double the speed that current commercial airliners fly.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
If successful, Overture could become the first commercial supersonic airliner since the Concorde, a Mach 2 aircraft developed in the 1960s by the British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Sud Aviation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
Noun
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North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was forced to scramble fighter jets three times over President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida on Saturday after airplanes violated restricted airspace.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, for example, manages a fleet of scientific and survey ships and airplanes that provide key data for climate, weather, fisheries, and underwater mapping.—
Nik Popli,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Starmer said the United Kingdom is ready to back the plan with boots on the ground and planes in the air.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2025
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Whether traveling by train, bus, plane, or car, this mini purifier will help clean the air around you and your little ones.—
Ramona Saviss,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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An aircraft alledgedly carrying US businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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Instead, Ukraine’s military was able to reposition matériel to avoid Russian strikes and shoot down a troop transport aircraft.—
The Editors,
National Review,
11 Mar. 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Get ready to use your Terrible Towel to dry off after a refreshing dip in an ocean liner's pool, because the official Steelers fan cruise has arrived.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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Prepare your muffin pan by lining with paper liners.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
23 Feb. 2025
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The two argued that advances in composite airframe construction would allow lighter supersonic aircraft that would generate less of a boom than the pioneering Concorde airliner, recommending that the FAA rewrite those rules to restrict sound, not speed.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
10 Feb. 2025
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That work is usually divided into three categories, covering the airframe — or body, wings and tail of a plane — the engine and various other components.—
Niraj Chokshi,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The service tallied 296 battle force ships (aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, and logistics and support ships) in December.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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The deadliest crash in recent history happened on January 29, when a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in Washington D.C., killing 67 people.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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A day after a jetliner flipped moments after landing in Toronto, what was left of the aircraft remained upside down on Tuesday, its right wing and tail sheared off and the wreckage blocking the two longest runways at Canada’s busiest airport.—
Vjosa Isai,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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