tanker

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Recent Examples of tanker In the latest detection on Tuesday, NORAD scrambled an E-3 Sentry, two F-16s and one KC-135 tanker to track the spy plane. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025 The dispute arose after Turkey loaded Iraqi crude oil onto a tanker at the Turkish Port of Ceyhan at the instructions of the Kurdistan Regional Government – a violation of Turkey’s 1973 pipeline agreement with Iraq. Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Prior to the incident, the bulk tanker already was displaying some concerning signs. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 19 Aug. 2025 Meyers said Coventry purchased a 1,000 gallon tanker in 2018 because the chief said the town had a need for it. Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tanker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
Noun
  • Other soybeans continue their journey to global markets, moving through the heartland by rail or barge to ports, then across oceans.
    Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The decommissioned Navy barge from the outside.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Daryl was able to get to France on a freighter.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed him with a flood of emotions.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On Sunday, two supertankers—each carrying up to 2 million barrels—turned back in the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites raised fears of commercial shipping being targeted, Bloomberg reported.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • The navigable shipping lanes for massive supertankers are only about two miles wide in each direction, requiring vessels to pass through both Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The Philippines grounded a former warship, the BRP Sierra Madre, on the shoal in 1999 and has stationed a small garrison of marines aboard ever since.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • On Sanday, another one of the Orkney Islands, a warship connected to the American Revolution was uncovered on a beach by a schoolboy.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And for those seeking British history, visit Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain, a steamship created by the man who masterminded much of England’s most impressive infrastructure, including the railway from London to Bristol.
    Lottie Gross, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The original film details a three-year surfing tour that Metz took between 1958 and 1961, a journey that involved steamship-hopping, hitchhiking, every other possible manner of transportation across Europe, Australia and Africa.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike a traditional steamer, the Quuejenl steamer also has a dry function that performs tasks where an iron may be better suited, like creating delicate pleats or pressing shirt collars.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Bossel suggests using a steamer to blast seams, crevices, and furniture legs with sustained heat—10 to 30 seconds per section.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Also made from nonporous silicone, each liner is made from food-grade silicone that’s nontoxic and BPA-free.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Moored on the shimmering curve of the South Bank, Sea Containers is London’s answer to maritime maximalism—an all-day, all-night glam escape where ocean liner nostalgia gets a high-gloss, high-style reboot.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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