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  • proper noun The United States Air Force.
  • proper noun Sports teams representing the United States Air Force Academy.

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Examples

  • Boeing spokesman William Barksdale said the firm "intends to submit a fully responsive, transparent and competitive proposal that meets the terms the Air Force has announced."

    Northrop Quits Tanker Bid Peter Sanders 2010

  • Boeing spokesman William Barksdale said the firm "intends to submit a fully responsive, transparent and competitive proposal that meets the terms the Air Force has announced."

    Northrop Quits Tanker Bid Peter Sanders 2010

  • Boeing spokesman William Barksdale said the firm "intends to submit a fully responsive, transparent and competitive proposal that meets the terms the Air Force has announced."

    Northrop Quits Tanker Bid Peter Sanders 2010

  • He'll be here until Tuesday and the next time he gets aboard an aircraft it will be that huge 747 that we know as Air Force One, but it won't be called Air Force One because he no longer will be president of the United States.

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009 2009

  • It's an Air Force base that is the home of course of the fleet of planes that we call Air Force One, Air Force Two.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004 2004

  • Any plane the president is on gets the designation Air Force One if it is an Air Force plane, Marine One a helicopter, Army One if it is an Army aircraft.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004 2004

  • These are very critical toward coordinating this air package, which is the term the Air Force uses, right?

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2003 2003

  • And, in an unprecedented move, Mr. Cheney is traveling overseas in the plane that is usually called Air Force One.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2002 2002

  • It has flown more than one million miles, we are told, under the designation Air Force One.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2001 2001

  • I called Air Force One and commented on the absurd Tass statement and said that we should get our response out quickly so that it would be on the evening news.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

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