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Recent Examples of airliner
Minutes after takeoff, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two surface-to-air missiles at the civilian airliner, killing everyone aboard.
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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On Tuesday, July 22, an ultralight airplane piloted by 75-year-old Sergio Ravaglia crashed onto the pavement of Corda Molle in a hamlet in Azzano Mella, Brescia, before bursting into flames.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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An airplane flies in the air, and there are two ways to get the internet to connect to such a place: from above or below.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
25 July 2025
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In 1943: Operation Gomorrah began as British and U.S. planes bombed the city of Hamburg, Germany, day and night.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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Once the plane landed in Phoenix, Ed gave Perreault his business card but Perreault didn't have one to give him in return.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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The Bangladesh Army’s public relations office confirmed that the jet that crashed was a F-7 BGI aircraft belonging to the Air Force, per the AP.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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Military aircraft often fly without broadcasting their location using a system known as ADS-B out, which can alert other aircraft in the area of their presence.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
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Birkin famously sketched her ideal bag on an aeroplane sickness bag and the rest is history.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
23 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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Otherwise, most adult dogs don’t need a waterproof liner for their bed.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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The Royals put 146 more balls in play than their opponents, and the pluses were in the right places, on flies (+68) and liners (+62).—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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This can be so severe that the US Civil Air Administration once built a chicken gun that used compressed air to fire bird carcasses at airframes to simulate avian impacts.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 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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With half of the residences already reserved, the ship is scheduled to be completed in 2029.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
19 July 2025
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The company aimed to land New Glenn's first stage on a ship at sea as well but failed in the attempt.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
19 July 2025
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On January 29, a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.—
Theo Burman
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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The United States has officially accepted a Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner as a gift from the Qatari government, and the Air Force has been tasked with upgrading it to be used as a new plane for President Trump, according to an Air Force spokesperson.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
21 May 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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