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- noun Plural form of
plane . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plane .
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Examples
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RESSA: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a top al Qaeda leader working closely with Osama bin Laden, who himself green-lighted what they called the planes (ph) project, better known to us as 9/11.
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Invented by the United States Air Force, it was first used to train pilots to recognize enemy planes from a distance.
A Book is Just a Very Long Text Message, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Top of those is the attempt uncovered on Friday to send bombs on cargo travelling in planes, which sparked a worldwide terrorist alert.
Stephen Timms attacker guilty of attempted murder Vikram Dodd 2010
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Those accelerations are inferred by combining Doppler measured velocities with geometric assumptions (movement in planes, etc.) [ref].
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Texan Clarence Swenson worked on repairing the radar equipment in planes at airbases in the US.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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While our forces are fighting battles with M16/M4 that have been continuously re-manufactured from bits that date as far back as the Vietnam War and flying around in planes that are older than that; we may indeed someday face an enemy who has not spent a decade pissing their military might away in the sand.
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010
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I wonder how many eco-nuts there are out there, driving cars, flying in planes and eating cooked food provided by agri-corporations.
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When we see video of soldiers in planes cracking jokes while shooting groups of people with precision bombs, or when we hear about the extent to which we have unmanned drones blanketing the skies above Afghanistan and Pakistan, it becomes very hard to just look away and dismiss all of that.
Yale Political Union: YPU debates "Resolved: Wikileaks should not have published classified documents" Yale Political Union 2010
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I know Bohr was running around Copenhagen and passing out in planes on the way to England and like that rather than hanging around bugging Oppie.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway laurel 2009
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When we see video of soldiers in planes cracking jokes while shooting groups of people with precision bombs, or when we hear about the extent to which we have unmanned drones blanketing the skies above Afghanistan and Pakistan, it becomes very hard to just look away and dismiss all of that.
Yale Political Union: YPU debates "Resolved: Wikileaks should not have published classified documents" Yale Political Union 2010
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