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- noun Plural form of
airlift . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
airlift .
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Examples
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The Chinese and other governments were organizing airlifts to repatriate nationals in Tunisia.
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Mr. Topping, who was Pan Am's station manager in Saigon, facilitated orphan airlifts from Vietnam with 747s fitted with 300 cardboard boxes on seats for diaperless babies.
Return of Pan Am, for a Weekend Scott McCartney 2011
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The airlifts were due to begin Tuesday but were delayed by what the WFP described as logistical problems in Kenya.
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The Chinese and other governments were organizing airlifts to repatriate nationals in Tunisia.
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The group said Tuesday it is starting the first of nine airlifts to Mombasa, Kenya, with enough high-energy biscuits to feed 1.6 million people for a day.
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The U.N. World Food Program has begun emergency airlifts of food to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa.
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The U.N. World Food Program has begun emergency airlifts of food to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa.
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Israel is not going to be doing major airlifts to drop its troops in Iran, or anything.
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The airlifts were due to begin Tuesday but were delayed by what the WFP described as logistical problems in Kenya.
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The group said Tuesday it is starting the first of nine airlifts to Mombasa, Kenya, with enough high-energy biscuits to feed 1.6 million people for a day.
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