as in ship
a large craft for travel by water
for a few days at least, the Titanic was the largest and grandest keel afloat
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Recent Examples of keel
Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
Beneath the mast and attached to the bottom of the keel is an aluminum cross piece, which prevents the seismometer from toppling over.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Pewaukee can keel it out and will do so.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
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Noun
That’s beneficial for weight loss, experts say, because if blood sugar is kept on an even keel, with few spikes or dips, the body’s cells can more effectively burn fat between meals for energy.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
Beneath the mast and attached to the bottom of the keel is an aluminum cross piece, which prevents the seismometer from toppling over.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
Otherwise healthy workers keel over at their desks after a long stretch of overtime or after consummating a high-pressure deal, usually from a stroke or heart attack.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Pewaukee can keel it out and will do so.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keel
Noun
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The strikes come amid a new, dangerous cycle of escalation in the Middle East in which Ansar Allah has resumed its long-range offensive against Israel and ships navigating the Red Sea and surrounding waters.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Battlestar Galactica, an ancient starship that had been decommissioned, is the only ship to survive the attack.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Permafrost acts as nature’s foundation in the Arctic, providing structural stability for landscapes that would otherwise collapse.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Those mortgages were then bundled into complex financial products that collapsed when homeowners started defaulting on their loans.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Authorities are now searching additional neighboring beaches as well as on land with 300 officers, search dogs, boats, two helicopters and other resources, Fox News Digital has confirmed.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
13 Mar. 2025
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For thousands of years, Arctic peoples have used a hunting boat called the qajaq, which is designed for speed and silence and is made of sealskin stretched over a whalebone or driftwood frame.—
Chloe Berge,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This chic $5 accessory will keep your favorite sun hat from getting crumpled in your bag.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Feb. 2025
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The doe crumples in her tracks just as Adams pulls the trigger.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Houthi rebels attacked over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors, from November 2023 until January this year when a ceasefire began in Gaza.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Houthis began targeting dozens of military and commercial vessels shortly after the war in Gaza began late 2023, choking off transit in one of the world's busiest waterways.—
Jackie Northam,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2025
Verb
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On this day, director Jeffrey Lo and book, music and lyrics creator Min Kahng plopped dead center at their work station as the chaos and mirth of a new musical exploded around them.—
David John Chávez,
The Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2025
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Just make sure the fruit is in individual pieces (don't plop it into the pan in big clumps).—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Taking seedlings straight from indoors and plunking them into the garden is a shock.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Feb. 2025
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In his final start of 2018, Sabathia plunked Tampa Bay’s Jesus Sucre in response to the Rays’ Andrew Kittredge throwing behind Austin Romine earlier in the game.—
Peter Sblendorio,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Traction was excellent, and rolling on a bit of throttle in some corners allowed for some wheel slip from the powerful hub motor.—
William Roberson,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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His ostensibly innocuous shot from well above the left circle clipped Dostál and then slipped through him to open the scoring.—
Andrew Knoll,
Orange County Register,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Keel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keel. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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