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airship

[air-ship] / ˈɛərˌʃɪp /


NOUN
balloon
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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.

From MarketWatch Feb. 6, 2026

An airship crashes into the ocean with three golfers apparently oblivious as they hole out on a seaside course.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

The huge wave swept over, and when it had passed, the airship and the robot were gone.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown




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