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Recent Examples of airliner
The airliner, which had 242 people on board, crashed into a hostel housing doctors and authorities had not yet determined the total number of casualties.
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 13 June 2025
Travelers are more attuned to the airliner models these days after a spate of crashes involving Boeing's 737 lineup several years ago.
—ArsTechnica, 12 June 2025
The tragedy is the first recorded incident of a complete loss of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, an airliner that had its initial flight in 2009.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 12 June 2025
At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 13 June 2025
Travelers are more attuned to the airliner models these days after a spate of crashes involving Boeing's 737 lineup several years ago.
—ArsTechnica, 12 June 2025
The tragedy is the first recorded incident of a complete loss of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, an airliner that had its initial flight in 2009.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 12 June 2025
At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
13 July 2025
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The media industry is far from the days when coaches welcomed an airplane full of sportswriters for a promotional tour half a century ago.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Even Kennedy was pictured holding what looked like a Big Mac while seated at a table with Trump and his inner circle on his private plane last November, right after Trump's re-election in November.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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This revolutionary new self-landing system is being installed in some private planes.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
12 July 2025
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According to the report, electrical power line installers make over $85,000 a year, and aircraft mechanics technicians have an average annual salary of $76,260.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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Not only are there new flights, but American is also adding a new aircraft: the Boeing 787-9.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 July 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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The 794-foot liner, the biggest in The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s fleet, accommodates 452 passengers in 226 suites.—
Spencer Whaley,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Fill a sachet with baby powder and tuck it in a drawer or on a closet shelf, or sprinkle the powder directly on the bottom of the drawer, then cover with liners to protect clothing.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 July 2025
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Through the use of a long, narrow airframe and canards, the X-59 is able to reduce the noise that reaches the ground from sonic booms generated as the aircraft crosses the speed of sound.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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The use case that really stuck with me was aerospace, specifically the idea that a single M2000 can simulate a multibillion-cell airframe in under 24 hours — something that would normally take a Top 500 supercomputer eight days.—
Anshel Sag,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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As a result, according to Cheever, every man, woman, child, and ship’s mate on the Mayflower was provisioned a full gallon of beer per day for their grueling ocean crossing.—
James Dodson
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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Further to that, there's evidence scattered across the Earth of the DC Universe that Kal-El's ship didn't break light speed.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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The jetliner heading to Nairobi lost control shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport and nose-dived into a barren patch of land.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
13 July 2025
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The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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