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spaceship

[speys-ship] / ˈspeɪsˌʃɪp /






NOUN
unidentified flying object
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Weir and a small crew are sent on a recovery mission after the lost spaceship, the Event Horizon, suddenly reappears in orbit around Neptune, issuing a distress signal.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

More generous critics have called the building the "Obamalisk" and compared it to a "Star Wars" spaceship.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

The spaceship traveled a little more than 62 miles above California’s Mojave Desert, as thousands of people watched from the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

I didn’t need Dreyfuss to step off a spaceship gangplank and say, “I’m back.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

When a spaceship approaches the speed of light, time slows down more and more and more.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The restart of commercial missions with a mothership and two Delta spaceships opens up the potential for $450 million in annual revenue across 125 flights, analysts at Jefferies said.

From Barron's Apr. 6, 2026

Nominally designed as a spaceport, Lego aliens and spaceships populate the area.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

The spaceships of the future—the ones we imagine, or design on paper—have the signature feature of never blowing up.

From Slate Dec. 9, 2025

To come up with a new spaceship design, an AI model can’t just access lots of data on other spaceships and learn.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

In the midst of the presses stood the sleeve machine, looking like twin silver spaceships.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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