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Recent Examples of steamship
The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.
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Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
Hartley offers a fascinating account of the logistics of navigating the Volga before the introduction of steamships, including the herculean work of barge haulers, who had to drag boats upstream.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
In those days, as international trade was transformed by refrigerated steamships, Argentina was a major exporter of grain and meat, by some measures as wealthy as the United States.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
And, within about 48 hours, local vigilantes rounded up Chinese residents — hundreds of people — forced them onto steamships bound for San Francisco and told them to never return again.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
Hartley offers a fascinating account of the logistics of navigating the Volga before the introduction of steamships, including the herculean work of barge haulers, who had to drag boats upstream.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
In those days, as international trade was transformed by refrigerated steamships, Argentina was a major exporter of grain and meat, by some measures as wealthy as the United States.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
And, within about 48 hours, local vigilantes rounded up Chinese residents — hundreds of people — forced them onto steamships bound for San Francisco and told them to never return again.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
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Vegetables, chicken, shrimp, firm or extra-firm tofu, and eggs are all excellent choices for sautéing. Steam: This technique involves cooking food in a steamer basket by placing it over boiling water, allowing the steam to cook it gently.—
Johna Burdeos,
Health,
20 Jan. 2025
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His father joined Zionist interests in Baltimore, contributing $50,000 to help purchase the former Old Bay Line steamer President Warfield, which in 1947 was renamed the Exodus, and transported more than 4,000 Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine, before being attacked by the British Navy.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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The company conceded that the goal of landing the rocket's reusable first stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean failed, after the booster was lost during reentry.—
Ivana Saric,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Blue Origin, however, failed to meet its secondary goal of recovering the reusable booster stage of the rocket—which was supposed to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic but was lost during reentry.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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All seven crew members aboard the freighter were Chinese nationals, the Taiwan coast guard said.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Freight can be moved by coastal freighters and barges.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2025
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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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The warship was underway in the Philippine Sea, a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, as of Wednesday.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Photos shared by the Navy and widely reported on show progress throughout 2024, including the gutting of the warship.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
29 Jan. 2025
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Kevin McCullough, president of Aero Air, which also provides air tankers, sent some of its MD-87s to the Los Angeles fires.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2025
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Firefighters were dispatched to the area just before 2 p.m. local time and were trying to slow its spread with the help of air tankers and helicopters, said Capt. Robert Johnson of Cal Fire, the state’s fire agency.—
Orlando Mayorquín,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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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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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.—
Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2023
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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