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The area’s unpredictable depths have also meant that, over the centuries, merchant ships and explorers tended to avoid these waters.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025 -
As noted in a 2016 Smithsonian report, merchant ships clad with the dazzle pattern during the war were reportedly granted lower insurance premiums.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Big Story 2nd F/A-18 falls into Red Sea as Houthis agree to ceasefire The Navy lost a second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea on a mission to target Houthi rebels in Yemen, the same day the U.S. announced a ceasefire deal with the militants.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
7 May 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has extended the deployment of the aircraft carrier in the Middle East for another week to support ongoing operations against the Houthis, The Associated Press reported on Friday.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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Before boarding the barge in Inverness, travelers can visit Culloden Moor, the scene of the famous 1746 battle, a pivotal moment in Outlander and Clava Cairns, the burial site of a prehistoric clan chieftain, widely believed to have inspired the standing stones of Craigh na Dun in the series.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Usually accommodating 6 to 12 passengers, the barges can navigate canals dating back to the early 1600s.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
10 Apr. 2025
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The most notable change from a spectators point of view was the swapping of the cutter and changeup as his second-most used pitch.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Crochet throws three of them: four-seamer, sinker and cutter, the last of which has become his bread and butter so far this season.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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The sharkskin-like material could be used by the U.S. Air Force on legacy aircraft that include the C-17 Globemaster III, C-130 Hercules cargo transport and the KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling airplane.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
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Any capacity increase would place an unmanageable strain on local transport, so Villa need the stadium expansion to happen alongside Witton’s rebuild.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Sure enough, Spenser’s workers had quickly filled a tanker with keys and keys of coke, and Henry and Garza were set to provide a police escort.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
27 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, given Boeing’s dismal record of performance problems and cost overruns on both civilian airliners and defense systems like the Osprey aircraft and the KC-46 refueling tanker, accelerating spending on the company’s new F-47 combat aircraft program is not prudent.—
William Hartung,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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These days, after divesting its train, Ski-Doo snowmobile, Sea-Doo personal watercraft, and ATV divisions, Bombardier is only focused on designing and building business jets.—
Daniel Cote,
Robb Report,
19 Feb. 2025
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The invasive mussels were first discovered at the Port of Stockton in October and have since been spotted attached to watercraft in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Motor ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor%20ship. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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