plane
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The upgrade will put the plane out of commission for roughly a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Pictures shared on social media show passengers getting off a plane as a massive plume of smoke rises nearby.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Clark, who was also the biggest buyer of Airbus’s A380, said he had been pushing the plane maker to proceed with a stretched version of the A350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He insisted that the engine on the 18-year-old Boeing 737 plane had been fully serviced and overhauled in the past two years.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“What—babies were flying the plane? You expect me to believe that? ‘
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
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
Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made had molded him.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
"Everybody is frustrated that we didn't get long planing runs," Carroll said on the slipway as Bluebird was towed back into the engineering tent for the final time.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
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
The proportion of businesses planing to raise prices fell five points to 49%.
From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2022
I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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