The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Today the slow-moving, sausage-shaped crafts called zeppelins might seem hopelessly antiquated, but in the mid-1930s they soared at the pinnacle of technology and modernity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The German military utilized zeppelins as early as 1915 to fly to London and bomb the city.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
In Scotland it became useful as a reconnaissance plane to protect the Forth coastline and Rosyth dockyard against German zeppelins.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022
A museum devoted to zeppelins, plus an actual zeppelin high in the sky.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Then came another flash of lightning, and this time the jagged fork struck down direct from the thunderhead at one of the zeppelins.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
