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zeppelin

[zep-uh-lin] / ˈzɛp ə lɪn /


NOUN
balloon
Synonyms
NOUN
blimp
Synonyms


NOUN
dirigible
Synonyms


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In groundbreaking work published last year, the Harvard team deduced that the stellar halo is tilted and elliptical in shape, like a zeppelin or football.

From Science Daily Oct. 10, 2023

And Harper asks viewers to hurt themselves suspending their disbelief, most notably in an action sequence where Rachel jumps out of a plane and lands on a zeppelin called The Locker.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2023

Arooj Aftab is an intriguing pick to close the weekend inside McCurdy Pavilion — an old zeppelin hangar converted into an auditorium — which tells you a lot about THING’s intentions.

From Seattle Times Aug. 25, 2022

An ovoid-shaped airship calls to mind a 1920s-era zeppelin, although Vermette explains, “It’s basically an armadillo that’s been squashed.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2022

Heads began to turn and scan the dark sky for the zeppelin, whose gas engine was throbbing clearly in the still air.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The German military utilized zeppelins as early as 1915 to fly to London and bomb the city.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

In Scotland it became useful as a reconnaissance plane to protect the Forth coastline and Rosyth dockyard against German zeppelins.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2022

A museum devoted to zeppelins, plus an actual zeppelin high in the sky.

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2022

A team of nearly 80 scholars wrote the 85 alphabetical entries, from arsenic-laced wallpaper that poisoned Victorian families to exploding zeppelins.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2022

In the zeppelins of the Consistorial Court, the Swiss Guard were attending to their kit.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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