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Listen to this article San Diego Museum Month is back for 2025, and participants can wander through a colorful camellia garden, stand at the ready in a command center on an aircraft carrier’s flight deck or see a Dutch artist’s debut exhibit in the United States.
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
How many people can effortlessly shift from field-anchoring on an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea to sitting down with Bono and Dolly Parton?
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Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 23 Jan. 2025
Fedotov, of course, was literally pulled off of a rink in Russia in 2022 and forced into military service, at one point stationed on an aircraft carrier in Murmansk.
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Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
aircraft carrier
noun
: a warship with a deck from which aircraft can take off and on which they can land
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