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dirigible

[dir-i-juh-buhl, dih-rij-uh-] / ˈdɪr ɪ dʒə bəl, dɪˈrɪdʒ ə- /
NOUN
airship
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Walter Wellmann lifted off in the dirigible “America,” only to ditch it off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when a storm hit shortly afterward.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2021

“It’s a soap bubble. It’s a flying ship. It’s a flying vessel, dirigible, zeppelin,” says an impassioned Renzo Piano.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

Lowman has also accessed the canopy using construction cranes and an inflatable raft attached to a dirigible.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021

What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

Located just across Fairfax from where the airfield once stood, the eye-catching spherical building’s design is, according to my Times colleague Carolina Miranda, “inspired by the dirigibles that used to touch down in the area.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

The federal government began to hoard the gas 100 years ago to ensure supplies for military dirigibles and later, the space program.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 5, 2023

But before that, hundreds of passenger trips were completed on the dirigibles.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

The "Love Myself" slogan was even emblazoned on dirigibles flown over the musicians' hometowns in 2017.

From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021

It was one of the pioneer dirigibles, but at that time we thought of it as almost a miracle.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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