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  • noun Plural form of airbreather.

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Examples

  • I'd say that a vehicle that has poor off-design performance (as all airbreathers do) is inflexible.

    X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch 2009

  • A cloud of noxious vapors trailed after it, spreading rapidly through the room, and sending the airbreathers reeling.

    BAR FIGHT • by Crystalwizard 2009

  • These human beings were strictly airbreathers — the handbook had told Thrykar and Tes that much; and it followed that the pits farther along the mountain side, which had been allowed to fill with water, must no longer be in use.

    Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965

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