aircraft carrier

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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier The aircraft carrier was in transit from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea when the collision occurred. Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025 The Navy fired the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier that struck a cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Feb. 12. Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025 The commanding officer of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was relieved of his command on Thursday, more than a week after the ship collided with a merchant vessel where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Suez Canal. Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025 Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
Noun
  • Analysts believe the redistribution made the merchant ships that were detouring around the Cape of Good Hope vulnerable to piracy in the western Indian Ocean.
    Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Thousands of merchant ships criss-cross global waters every year to help keep trade alive and well.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The measures quickly disrupted the flow of sanctioned Russian oil to China and India, with millions of barrels now left floating on tankers as few want to risk American enforcement actions.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The vessels in question are not modern, but rather are primarily aging fuel tankers.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His portfolio includes a 215-horsepower watercraft and the Snoped, an upright single-track snow bike with stark, boxy bodywork.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The firefighters used the watercraft to reach three hunters that had lost control of their boat and were unable to make it to shore.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Harrison’s addition of a cutter and harder slider could aid him in his quest for more whiffs.
    Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The extent to which the federal government has been privatized across the board is rarely discussed, especially not by would-be cost cutters like Musk and Vought.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The trader had meant to sell just $58 million worth of stocks, but accidentally issued an order to sell $444 billion, the majority of which was blocked before being sold.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Volatility gripped markets as traders closed out a dismal February that wiped out some gains.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Fitzcarraldo Year: 1982 Runtime: 2h 37m Director: Werner Herzog Werner Herzog set out to make a movie about a man who was insane enough to try and move a steamship over land from one river to another and Herzog himself was insane enough to actually try and replicate it.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019

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