plane
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They also played a key role in the audacious, highly publicized rescue in 2023 of four children lost for 40 days after a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The plane had 190 passengers and 10 crew members onboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Instead of taking a five-hour flight from Singapore to Perth, England then flew for almost eight hours to Sydney, before catching another plane to go back to Western Australia.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the second season, he tested his theories on the aviation industry, arguing that his methods could stop plane crashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Alex’s fear disappeared, as suddenly and completely as if it had fallen out of the plane without a parachute.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Originally planed to be open in 2016 and cost around 5bn euros, its price has since roughly quadrupled and its start-up pushed back to 2025.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024
The wood-framed walls and beams were planed to feel as soft to the touch as satin sheets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
In the past few days, we slurped frilly Shanxi planed noodles in this spicy sesame chile oil number.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
He’d cut and planed a new plank for over the ditch too.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The committee set aside $21.5 million for “hybrid composite structures research for enhanced mobility,” “electric propulsion for military craft and advanced planing hulls” and a “test bed for autonomous ship systems.”
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
When she was 16, she helped her father build them a house, making cinder blocks and planing boards after school.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
The firm processes the timber on three planing lines at the port run by 47 people.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2021
Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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