: a sturdy buoyant boat (such as one carried by a ship) for use in an emergency and especially in saving lives at sea
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There have been so many things involving Disney recently that bring to mind your Mickey Mouse work—and a new work in the show is Beached, a mummified self-portrait as Mickey Mouse on a Trump lifeboat.
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Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
We were led down to the heated bunkroom, and the lifeboat turned and pounded through the wild seas to the quiet water inside the bar and tied up at a dock.
—Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
The wobbling of another ship, at the weight of over a thousand passengers and hordes of packages, stacked up to the awnings, stuffed above the lifeboats, piled even onto the anchor deck, preventing its use.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
The show was originally cancelled after three seasons on Max, but Netflix was thought of as a possible lifeboat.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
We were led down to the heated bunkroom, and the lifeboat turned and pounded through the wild seas to the quiet water inside the bar and tied up at a dock.
—Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
The wobbling of another ship, at the weight of over a thousand passengers and hordes of packages, stacked up to the awnings, stuffed above the lifeboats, piled even onto the anchor deck, preventing its use.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
The show was originally cancelled after three seasons on Max, but Netflix was thought of as a possible lifeboat.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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lifeboat
noun
life·boat
-ˌbōt 
: a sturdy boat (as one carried by a ship) for use in an emergency and especially for saving lives at sea
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