merchant ship

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Recent Examples of merchant ship The Navy announced Thursday that Capt. Dave Snowden, who was in charge of the USS Harry S. Truman when the aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship, has been fired. Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025 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 These five ships could provide a powerful escort for merchant ships carrying Ukrainian grain notwithstanding their limited numbers. Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for merchant ship
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Noun
  • In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.
    Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The Pentagon also ordered the second aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, to transit to the Middle East from the Pacific Ocean.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Gold, a traditional safe haven asset, is up around 15% so far this year as traders and central banks buy it to hedge against economic and geopolitical uncertainties.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • How the stock market has changed since Election Day The downturn since mid-February is in stark contrast to the 4.5% run-up in the S&P 500 following Trump's election when traders predicted his administration would usher in more business-friendly policies.
    Jim Sergent, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís.
    Laura Gómez, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The survivors yelled for help when a steamship passed them during the night, but without flares to signal they were not seen.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The key objective of the New Glenn's first uncrewed spaceflight last month was for the second stage of the vehicle to safely reach orbit before Blue Origin attempted to land the rocket booster, or first stage, on a barge several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The pieces were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday for Washington's Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members on board.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Remove it first, then clean it with the steamer or wet machine.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Original Price: $350.00 Sale Price: $80.00 (77% off) Gotham Steel Hammered Copper 17-Piece Aluminum Nonstick Cookware Set Including fry, sauce and baking pans, a stock pot, a steel steamer and a cookie sheet, this set is oven safe up to 500 degrees and can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
    Ho Lin, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Chris Cook, Maersk’s managing director for South Asia, told the Economic Times that the company would explore the potential and feasibility of investing in dedicated air freighters and partnerships in the green fuel segment in India.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These currents transport heat, affecting ecosystems from the sea surface to the abyss, and this new data can increase our knowledge into them.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • High quality names include those that are in the top two quintiles for quality, while bond proxies or defensive yield plays include real estate investment trusts, railroad and transport infrastructure.
    Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Alaska Airlines has invested in the project and the US Air Force has awarded a $235 million contract for a demonstrator that could serve as an air refueling tanker, cargo or transport aircraft.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Russia responded by using a shadow fleet of tankers whose ties to Moscow were hidden to transport the commodity which continues to generate high revenues for the Kremlin, despite sanctions.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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