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Recent Examples of tugboat
The company initially built tugboats to tow offshore oil rigs and barges through the criss-cross of bayous and canals.
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Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
Besides the two submarines, the convoy included a frigate and a tugboat.
—CBS News, 24 Sep. 2024
From $125 per night. BOOK NOW Tugboat in Louisa, Virginia
This is living in the future—a tugboat stay with all the amenities of a hotel.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
But the tugboat’s engineer, Martin Boswell, had been working below deck during the collision.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
Besides the two submarines, the convoy included a frigate and a tugboat.
—CBS News, 24 Sep. 2024
From $125 per night. BOOK NOW Tugboat in Louisa, Virginia
This is living in the future—a tugboat stay with all the amenities of a hotel.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
But the tugboat’s engineer, Martin Boswell, had been working below deck during the collision.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tugboat
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Besides the vessels visiting China, another Russian naval group, which is composed of a submarine and a rescue towboat, was spotted sailing northward on Tuesday in the waters between Japan's southwestern islands of Yonaguni and Iriomote in the Philippine Sea.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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The filing also details acquisitions, including the purchase of 13 inland tank barges and two high horsepower towboats for $65.2 million.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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The filing also details acquisitions, including the purchase of 13 inland tank barges and two high horsepower towboats for $65.2 million.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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The company initially built tugboats to tow offshore oil rigs and barges through the criss-cross of bayous and canals.Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
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Across its eight tracks, Knox bares all about the intimate lifecycle of her own seven-year relationship through spellbinding vocals that tug at the heartstrings and polished, R&B-leaning production.Heran Mamo, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
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The dog can sniff around and tug at its leash, but the dog walker is the one setting the pace and direction.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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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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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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Sydney Harbour taking in the Harbour Bridge, Opera House and ferries at sunrise during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 20, 2020 in Sydney, Australia.Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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This fast ferry offers a scenic three-hour trip north, through the Strait of Juan de Fuca with daily departures.Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Intelligence unmoored from values is no better than a ship without a keel, charting courses without regard to consequence.Hamilton Mann, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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But keeping an even keel, and sticking with the plan even after taking a fist to the nose, has been working so far.Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
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Typically 60 feet long and 8 feet wide, capable of bearing 40 tons, the keelboat was specially designed for the western rivers.Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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In a dominating victory in the three-person Soling keelboat at the 1972 Olympics, Melges unseated the sport’s greatest sailor, Paul Elvstrom, who had won four Olympic Gold medals.Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
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And his administration will have ample opportunities to slow or even kill future transactions – lifeboats that some media companies may need to survive.Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
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Out of the ship's 132 passengers and crew, 114 people died – and the few people who survived the wreck were stuck in a lifeboat for a week.Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Tugboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tugboat. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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