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The latest: Angry Kitten is being mounted to A-10 and C-130 warplanes, and there's interest among the tanker community, namely KC-46 and -135, according to the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center.
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Colin Demarest, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
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
The Pickens County Sheriff's Office posted an update late Saturday saying crews had ceased operations and would resume Sunday morning with ground personnel and machinery and assistance from helicopters and air tankers.
—Associated Press, TIME, 23 Mar. 2025
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Colin Demarest, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
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
The Pickens County Sheriff's Office posted an update late Saturday saying crews had ceased operations and would resume Sunday morning with ground personnel and machinery and assistance from helicopters and air tankers.
—Associated Press, TIME, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
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The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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But the freighter may not be grounded forever.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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So how did Archie Norman and CEO Stuart Machin even begin to turn around such a supertanker?—
Natalie Berg,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Moving the economy and the housing market higher are two other supertankers that will take time.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
9 Oct. 2024
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Facing the threat posed by the Chinese navy, which has over 370 ships and submarines, the U.S. has sent warships to the Western Pacific Ocean following upgrades, including a laser-armed destroyer and an aircraft carrier that has stealth fighter jets embarked aboard.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.—
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Mar. 2025
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While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
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Then, Naomi Campbell arrived at the Louvre for the first time in her career, marking the memory with a bouffant coif and her eyes encircled with dark liner.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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The rapper styled her hair into a blunt bob with bangs across her forehead and her signature dark lip liner.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Plans for air support had been scuttled for various reasons, but several armored transports are on the way to evacuate them from the area.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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This was caused by record global heat and cool air conditioning, rising industry consumption, electrification of transport, and growth of data centers and AI (artificial intelligence).—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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