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plane

adjective as in level, horizontal

noun as in flat surface; level

noun as in aircraft

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Pilots are well aware that fierce vortices form at the wingtips of accelerating planes and separate from there.

Wengfeng Lu is arrested before boarding a plane to China, where he planned to start a company copying medical-device technology he stole from two previous employers.

When operating, El Al’s planes have had to run a dogleg route to Mumbai, for example, down the Red Sea and up the Gulf of Aden to avoid Saudi airspace.

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After five years cleaning planes at LAX, and never flying on one of them, I’d finally learned what my grandmother meant when she said that your job is temporary, and your education is forever.

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One of the biggest impediments to self-flying planes is regulation, so the two founders tried to figure out how they could convince the FAA to approve unmanned flights without having to modify any existing regulations.

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Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.

As we waited for my plane to come in, we stayed silent for a long time.

And then I got on a plane, and guess what was playing: I Never Sang for My Father.

“Call me when the plane leaves the ground,” she said, in a tone that implied she knew her husband well.

On Monday, Soelistyo had jolted relatives as well as searchers by suggesting that the plane could be “at the bottom of the sea.”

The sequestered spot, a seat beneath a plane tree, with a lonesome arc-lamp shining full upon it, was occupied.

Hence the latter is not level, but has, in places, steps which have been worn to an inclined plane.

Therefore the families were strong, united, sound, resisting the storm like a line of plane trees!

Then he shaved this side of the block, then the other side, with a plane, a tool with a very sharp edge.

Here was another plane of existence where the machinations of men seemed to matter little.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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