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Recent Examples of jetliner
Duffy’s comments come a week after an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jetliner that was moments away from landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
The first aircraft was a Kenya Airways jetliner with 144 police officers aboard.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
The news came Tuesday as crews worked to try to recover the cockpit and other parts of the jetliner from the Potomac River.
—Serkan Gurbuz, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Carlos Barria | Reuters WASHINGTON — How an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airlines jetliner in a deadly crash over the Potomac River on Wednesday night is still unknown, but key questions are emerging, including about the altitude of the military helicopter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
The first aircraft was a Kenya Airways jetliner with 144 police officers aboard.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
The news came Tuesday as crews worked to try to recover the cockpit and other parts of the jetliner from the Potomac River.
—Serkan Gurbuz, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Carlos Barria | Reuters WASHINGTON — How an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airlines jetliner in a deadly crash over the Potomac River on Wednesday night is still unknown, but key questions are emerging, including about the altitude of the military helicopter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetliner
Noun
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His social media is plastered with videos of private jets and sportscars.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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To the Mach 4 missiles, capable of taking out jets maneuvering at high speed , a Shahed is a sitting duck.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This turboprop aircraft still ranks as one of the most successful regional aircraft in aviation history.—
Daniel Cote,
Robb Report,
19 Feb. 2025
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So Sky Way was already seemingly an ICE front when its turboprop shipped the cocaine in early 2005.—
Penn Bullock,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The number of deaths aboard aircraft in the United States is also on the decline.—
Melissa Chan,
NBC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In other economic news Thursday, orders for long-lasting goods such as aircraft, appliances and computers unexpectedly jumped 3.1% in January, a potential sign of attempts to make big-ticket purchases ahead of an acceleration in tariffs.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
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As ramjets forego moving parts like the compressor and turbine components found in traditional turbojets, the design is more compact, lightweight, efficient, and cost-effective to produce.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
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Chambers says oral history, passed on by Koh Samui locals, states the tanker was torpedoed by a submarine.—
Ronan O'Connell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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All tanker vessels will need to comply to reduce emissions in California ports by the beginning of 2027.—
Katie Fehrenbacher,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
7 Aug. 2024
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The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project hopes to revive commercial supersonic by reducing a jet’s sonic boom.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Mar. 2020
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That’s about double the speed that current commercial airliners fly.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
18 Feb. 2025
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There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Jetliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetliner. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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