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airplane

noun as in vehicle that transports cargo or passengers through the air

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Now homeless, the Cheungs have moved into a hotel, all of their belongings stored in a bright yellow plastic rolling suitcase small enough to fit into an airplane’s overhead bin.

Its underwriters were the first to cover a car—the 1904 policy described the newfangled vehicle as a “ship navigating on land”—an airplane and a satellite.

The second season of HBO’s “The Rehearsal” takes aim at the commercial aviation industry, examining barriers to pilot mental health and troubling relationship dynamics in the cockpit that could pose threats to airplane safety.

By the mid-1980s, Meyer was wealthy enough to retire, at age 59, to pursue his hobbies, which included flying airplanes and gliders.

"Three weeks later they were approved and on an airplane and here with us," she says.

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