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Recent Examples of freighter
Freight can be moved by coastal freighters and barges.
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U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Seeking alternative transit The closure of the Moselle is holding up around 70 ships, as there are no alternative waterways for large freighters.
—Sin To, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Excess production from expansion of kitchen orchards was sold to freighters who hauled apples to distant markets in open wagons.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.
—David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Seeking alternative transit The closure of the Moselle is holding up around 70 ships, as there are no alternative waterways for large freighters.
—Sin To, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Excess production from expansion of kitchen orchards was sold to freighters who hauled apples to distant markets in open wagons.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.
—David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freighter
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In September of 1955, Marthe boards a steamship with two other fellows from France, both men, to make the five day trip across the Atlantic to Boston.—
Lorena Galliot,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2025
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More-efficient steam engines were deployed in new factories, trains and steamships.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.—
Claudine Ebeid,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.—
Anna Mulrine Grobe,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan. 2025
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Under the city solicitation, the project would also include a new floating stage for performers to replace the converted barge that once hosted performers at the stadium.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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That barge is nicknamed Jacklyn, after the mother of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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At its core, this is a painting about fading: H.M.S. Temeraire was a majestic old warship that had played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar three decades earlier but, eventually, became militarily obsolete and had to be scrapped for parts.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Another historical parallel can be drawn with Trump's aggressive use of tariffs and threats of them and the arrival in 1853 of a flotilla of U.S. warships in Tokyo Bay.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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The researchers stipulate that the steamer basket of eggs must be dunked into the boiling water for two minutes, then into the lukewarm water for two minutes—a switch that’s to be repeated eight total times before you’re cleared to run them under cold water and peel off the shells.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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To steam: Line steamer basket with steamer paper and place prepared dumplings in a single layer in the basket, with 1 inch between each.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.—
Jeff Martini,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2011
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Nadig made the point that technology has become the great equalizer in the markets: everyone has it, meaning getting an edge on other traders who often have the same or similar technology, is difficult.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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The company also recorded a 1,000% increase in new traders on its services during the week of the Super Bowl compared with the previous week.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Freighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freighter. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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