airship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of airship
Example Sentences
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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026
Goodyear Blimp pilot-in-training Fayth Rascon-Ryn grew up near the Carson base and would drive past the airship all the time.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
An airship crashes into the ocean with three golfers apparently oblivious as they hole out on a seaside course.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
The floor swayed as gently beneath me as the deck of an airship.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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