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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

In the evening, an airship lowered in a medic who confirmed all three deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026

By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Instead, it took place in a small meadow by the foot of the mountain, in front of the airship.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown




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