: 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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Four crew members were stranded in a lifeboat for 19 days, rescued only after three of them had killed and eaten the fourth.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Al was the one-man lifeboat when the Warriors were terrible and terribly run.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Over the next 308 days, the men faced starvation and frostbite as Shackleton recruited five crew members to make the treacherous journey in a lifeboat to seek help on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
But their stint in orbit was extended so that their Dragon spacecraft could serve as an emergency lifeboat for two astronauts who flew to space aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Al was the one-man lifeboat when the Warriors were terrible and terribly run.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Over the next 308 days, the men faced starvation and frostbite as Shackleton recruited five crew members to make the treacherous journey in a lifeboat to seek help on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
But their stint in orbit was extended so that their Dragon spacecraft could serve as an emergency lifeboat for two astronauts who flew to space aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Oct. 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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