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Recent Examples of turboprop
The Cessna aircraft, a single-engine turboprop operated by Bering Air, departed from Unalakleet on Thursday around 2:30 p.m., Alaska’s Department of Public Safety said.
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
Crews were still working on recovering the single-engine turboprop plane.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
The turboprop Cessna Caravan operated by Bering Air was reported missing Thursday around 4 p.m. local time, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
The Bering Air Caravan, a single-engine turboprop, was heading from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday afternoon with nine passengers and a pilot, according to Alaska's Department of Public Safety.
—Associated Press, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
Crews were still working on recovering the single-engine turboprop plane.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
The turboprop Cessna Caravan operated by Bering Air was reported missing Thursday around 4 p.m. local time, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
The Bering Air Caravan, a single-engine turboprop, was heading from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday afternoon with nine passengers and a pilot, according to Alaska's Department of Public Safety.
—Associated Press, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turboprop
Noun
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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
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His social media is plastered with videos of private jets and sportscars.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
28 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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This took more than 1,000 new aircraft out of service for the better part of two years.—
Oliver Wyman,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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The incident in Toronto comes after 67 people were killed when a commercial jetliner and helicopter collided in Washington, a medical transportation plane crash in Philadelphia that killed six people on board and another on the ground and the deaths of 10 people in a plane crash in Alaska.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2025
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A day after a jetliner flipped moments after landing in Toronto, what was left of the aircraft remained upside down on Tuesday, its right wing and tail sheared off and the wreckage blocking the two longest runways at Canada’s busiest airport.—
Vjosa Isai,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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
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
Noun
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The measures quickly disrupted the flow of sanctioned Russian oil to China and India, with millions of barrels now left floating on tankers as few want to risk American enforcement actions.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The vessels in question are not modern, but rather are primarily aging fuel tankers.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That work is usually divided into three categories, covering the airframe — or body, wings and tail of a plane — the engine and various other components.—
Niraj Chokshi,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Labor accounts for most of the cost of airframe maintenance, so airlines in wealthier countries often send that work to countries where wages are lower.—
Niraj Chokshi,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Turboprop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turboprop. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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