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airship

[air-ship] / ˈɛərˌʃɪp /


NOUN
balloon
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An early critic compared Salon to an old-fashioned airship, richly appointed and comfortable but more slow-moving than an actual plane.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Dark Knight was filmed on location in Chicago and Hong Kong, while large indoor sets were built at the airship hangars in Cardington, Bedfordshire.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

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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