plane
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Guthrie wrote the weeper in 1948 to commemorate a plane crash in California’s Central Valley that killed all 32 on board, including 28 Mexican nationals with a one-way ticket back home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He once left the room and they debated whether he was referring to physical galaxies or a type of private plane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists earlier in the day that he had no information regarding the plane that touched down around 10 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Had I accidentally discovered a supernatural portal where time and space didn’t exist, one where random phenomena of blinding beauty could materialize on this plane without any logical explanation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thirty-six seats on this plane, and every single one of them was full.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Originally planed to be open in 2016 and cost around 5bn euros, its price has since roughly quadrupled and its start-up pushed back to 2025.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024
Lee, with her sharply planed and expressive features, capable of shifting from wonderment to skepticism in a heartbeat, suggests the learned assurance of someone very comfortable with change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
In the past few days, we slurped frilly Shanxi planed noodles in this spicy sesame chile oil number.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
These usually bought land, but good land, and built their houses of planed lumber and had carpets and colored-glass diamond panes in their windows.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
When she was 16, she helped her father build them a house, making cinder blocks and planing boards after school.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
"We understand that the terrorists are planing new strikes. We know this for a fact," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2022
Open, where she was upset in the third round by Leylah Fernandez and explained that she was struggling to take pleasure in the game and was planing to take a break from competition.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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