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hot-air balloon

NOUN
lighter-than air craft
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They posed in front of props such as a hot-air balloon, an upright piano or a staircase going to nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Pointing to a poster of Wallace and Gromit floating over Bristol in a hot-air balloon, Lord reflected on their appeal.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

From there, chunks of bedroom and kitchen silently floated over the power lines and were lowered into place, workers twisting the walls into alignment with hanging guidelines like from a hot-air balloon.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2025

The novel trots the globe, from Barbados to Virginia to Nova Scotia to the Arctic to London to Morocco, and besides the hot-air balloon, includes the invention of the public aquarium.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

I felt as if I might lift off the ground, like a hot-air balloon.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda




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