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Recent Examples of dockyard
However, the incident at the small Simon’s Town dockyard took place seven months ago.
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Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 29 July 2023
The ship was laid down at the Soviet dockyards in Nikolayev in April 1982, in what is now Mykolaiv in Ukraine.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
Pressure on the supply chain is straining the equipment, and drivers are contending with shortages of tires and chassis, the wheeled metal frames that carry containers from the dockyard to railheads or distribution warehouses for their journeys inland.
—Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
He was trapped—cursed, really—at the dockyard in Portsmouth, along the English Channel, struggling with feverish futility to get the Centurion fitted out and ready to sail.
—David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
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Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 29 July 2023
The ship was laid down at the Soviet dockyards in Nikolayev in April 1982, in what is now Mykolaiv in Ukraine.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
Pressure on the supply chain is straining the equipment, and drivers are contending with shortages of tires and chassis, the wheeled metal frames that carry containers from the dockyard to railheads or distribution warehouses for their journeys inland.
—Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
He was trapped—cursed, really—at the dockyard in Portsmouth, along the English Channel, struggling with feverish futility to get the Centurion fitted out and ready to sail.
—David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dockyard
Noun
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But like the Phoenicians and Greeks of the past, many are also now looking to the wind At a shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey a new kind of cargo vessel is undergoing final checks before embarking this summer on a round-trip voyage from France to Canada and the United States.—
Nick Nuttall,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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And that training is well underway at nearby Ella Grasso Technical High School, where students work with the same state-of-art equipment in use at the shipyard.—
Charlie D'Agata,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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However, the news that the world’s largest alternative asset manager (with more than $1 trillion under management) has agreed to acquire Safe Harbor Marinas (the largest marina and superyacht servicing business in the United States) for $5.65 billion has piqued my interest.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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The hotel, with its iconic 66-spire facade, made its debut in 1965 with an expansive marina and its signature rotating rooftop lounge, the Pier Top, that attracted celebrities from Walter Cronkite to Frank Sinatra with its glitzy views of the Atlantic.—
Mae Hamilton,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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Blue Harvest has charged captains and crew on its vessels for maintenance, electronics and wharfage fees, among other expenses.—
Will Sennott,
ProPublica,
22 July 2022
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Stimpson said last year that cruising, before the pandemic halted the industry, attracted around $6 million in annual gross revenues from wharfage and parking alone.—
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25 Feb. 2022
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“Dockyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockyard. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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