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Recent Examples of workboat
Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.
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Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
At the same time, the firm is testing a new, 29-foot-long workboat for the US Coast Guard that can be operated by remote control from shore or switched to a fully autonomous mode.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
At the same time, the firm is testing a new, 29-foot-long workboat for the US Coast Guard that can be operated by remote control from shore or switched to a fully autonomous mode.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workboat
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
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Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has dwindled their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
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But based on the financial success of its previous voyages in search of sperm oil—a high-quality lighting oil derived from the spermaceti organ in the head of the sperm whale—it was considered a desirable, even lucky, ship by local whalers.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1. Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2024
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Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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The free Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry runs year-round between Hatteras and Ocracoke Island, with each one-way trip lasting 40-45 minutes.Staff Author, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025
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In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was expected to host more than 2 million people along Copacabana Beach to watch fireworks erupt from ferries parked offshore and concerts by Brazilian pop stars such as Anitta and Caetano Veloso.Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 1 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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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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The plan for the historic ship is for it to be towed by tugboats to Mobile, Alabama where it will be broken down to serve as an artificial reef.Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery of the John Evenson, a tugboat built in 1884, in a Facebook post on Sept. 20.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Workboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workboat. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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