oil tanker

noun

: a large ship that carries oil

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After a cargo ship and an oil tanker crashed into the wreck in the English Channel, the Tricolor and its contents were cut into nine 3,000-ton sections and steamed off to Belgium for disposal. —Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022

Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker. —Time, 16 Dec. 2022

Coming the day before the oil tanker Exxon Valdez spilled its load across a wide swath of the Alaskan coastline, the reaction to the U. announcement was massive and global. —Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022

The three men were rescued Monday from the rudder of the oil tanker Alithini II by the Spanish coast guard, NBC News reports. —Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2022

An oil tanker tanks on the transfer of oil from the NuStar Energy facility in Corpus Christi on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. —Diego Mendoza-moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2022

Global Witness, a nonprofit, estimates that a quarter of oil tanker sales between late February 2022 and January this year involved unknown buyers, roughly double the proportion the previous year. —Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023

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