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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

Umberto Nobile, his Italian engineer, decided to win accolades for Mussolini in 1928 by attempting the feat but wound up facing disaster when his airship, Italia, crashed and prompted a high-profile international rescue mission.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2024

He turned to his mother and said, “Ma, there’s an airship flying this way.”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown




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