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runways

  • plural
    of runway.
    runway
    noun
    a way along which something runs.

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Whether the airport can in fact legally be constructed is being contested in the courts even as the runways get tarmacked.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The Engineering Materials Arresting System, or EMAS, is a bed of crushable material at the end of runways designed to stop aircraft that overrun them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The airport said all its runways and taxiways have been shut down because of the accident.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

The two runways at New York's LaGuardia airport were left under water for several days, preventing it from reopening even after the winds had subsided.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

But Rafik thought she had passed the camp and was heading down through low bushes and scraggly trees toward the runways at the abandoned airport.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye