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- noun Plural form of
rocketship .
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Examples
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You will, of course, find a few rare stories about nuns in rocketships and monasteries on the Moon – and even one dreadful little yarn about the Salvation Army reforming the rough types on Mars!
SF – A Humanist Perspective « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007
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And now many of them are building rocketships of their own as they continue the quest.
Rick Tumlinson: Big Ideas in Small Times Rick Tumlinson 2012
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If it sounded cool once, now “Sci-Fi” just sounds like babytalk, the linguistic equivalent of a duvet cover with cartoon aliens and robots on the rampage, or a lunchbox with rocketships and glow-in-the-dark stars.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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There are enough interactive displays and "big rocketships and robots" to keep little kids interested, and enough detail to engage adults -- everyone I saw on my visit seemed interested, regardless of age.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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If it sounded cool once, now “Sci-Fi” just sounds like babytalk, the linguistic equivalent of a duvet cover with cartoon aliens and robots on the rampage, or a lunchbox with rocketships and glow-in-the-dark stars.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Grandpa and me (Kipling and rocketships and deck 'em)
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009
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At the same time, NASA would work on bigger rocketships that would eventually take astronauts to other places, such as an asteroid, and eventually to Mars.
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And now many of them are building rocketships of their own as they continue the quest.
Rick Tumlinson: Big Ideas in Small Times Rick Tumlinson 2012
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"Hoping to bridge the gap between airplanes and rocketships, the U.S. military is preparing to test an experimental aircraft that can fly more than six times faster than the speed of sound on ordinary jet fuel."
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And now many of them are building rocketships of their own as they continue the quest.
Rick Tumlinson: Big Ideas in Small Times Rick Tumlinson 2012
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