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Recent Examples of tanker
Canada has also sent dozens of reinforcements and air tankers, though its Super Scooper plane — which can gather 1,500 gallons of ocean water to drop on the fires — has been grounded following a collision with an unauthorized drone.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
Prior to their evacuation, our son sent us videos of tanker planes dropping red fire retardant overhead.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Already, around 890 unique tankers loaded Russian oil — comprising both crude and oil products — in the past six months, analytics firm Vortexa told CNBC on Jan. 7, with 107 of these ships — or 12% of the total — being subject to vessel-specific sanctions at the time.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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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Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
Prior to their evacuation, our son sent us videos of tanker planes dropping red fire retardant overhead.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Already, around 890 unique tankers loaded Russian oil — comprising both crude and oil products — in the past six months, analytics firm Vortexa told CNBC on Jan. 7, with 107 of these ships — or 12% of the total — being subject to vessel-specific sanctions at the time.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
Noun
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Last winter, after a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk crashed into the bay, the helicopter was lifted from 15 feet of water and stabilized on a barge.—
Kristina Davis,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The top to-do item for Blue Origin is flying New Glenn again—and recovering the giant rocket's first stage by landing it on an autonomous landing barge (named Jacklyn for Bezos' mother).—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
12 Feb. 2025
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The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
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Rates for supertankers crossing from the Middle East Gulf to Asia-Pacific — a bellwether route for the oil industry — picked up by more than 40% between Jan. 9 and Jan. 14, according to pricing data from Argus Media.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Managers of offshore oil rigs, supertankers, and Antarctic research stations all appreciate the importance of food to maintaining group morale and productivity in isolated, remote, and confined situations.—
Nicola Twilley,
WIRED,
11 Feb. 2020
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As recently as the 1990s, the United Nations embargo on Iraq relied on warships patrolling the Persian Gulf.—
Edward Fishman,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2025
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The prohibition against women serving on warships ended in 1993, opening the door for officers like Admiral Franchetti to compete equally with their male counterparts.—
John Ismay,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Fitzcarraldo Year: 1982 Runtime: 2h 37m Director: Werner Herzog Werner Herzog set out to make a movie about a man who was insane enough to try and move a steamship over land from one river to another and Herzog himself was insane enough to actually try and replicate it.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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The Duchess wore her dark tresses in a ponytail, while her makeup consisted of light blush and nude lip liner.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
10 Feb. 2025
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Classic lip liner was paired with gloss or lipstick combinations again—proved to be perfect for winter conditions.—
Stixx Mathews,
Essence,
9 Feb. 2025
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Netanyahu ordered the military to pick up the intensity of operations after a series of explosions on buses in transport depots close to Tel Aviv on Thursday.—
Raneen Sawafta and James Mackenzie,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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French startup Flying Whales is on a mission to transform cargo transport with its ambitious Large Capacity Airship 60 Tonne (LCA60T) project.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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