aircraft carrier

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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier Eventually, Scott Thomas considered an aircraft carrier pilot. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025 At dusk, the Camp 25 crew had crossed the ruins and reached a harbor in the south, where the aircraft carrier Cape Gloucester was in port. Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 The Ream Naval Base, on the Gulf of Thailand, would be able to host Chinese aircraft carriers, according to international analysts. Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 25 July 2025 The boat was impounded The aircraft carrier is about 1,000 feet long, and its flight deck sits about 55 feet above the water, but it has been struck at least once before in previous years. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
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Noun
  • Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The proposal relies on Starship being refueled in low-Earth orbit by multiple Starship tanker launches.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The most recent mission on Tuesday lasted six hours and was not supported by an aerial refueling tanker.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two Indiana men were driving the personal watercraft, with each carrying a female passenger, when the collision happened at about noon.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • More than 3,000 watercraft passed through the lock during the 2023 season, the DNR said.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Healy has been patrolling the Arctic alongside the national security cutter USCGC Waesche since Saturday.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These include American Tanto, sheepfoot, serrated and saw blade options, as well as unconventional choices like a comb and can opener/ruler/wrench/seatbelt cutter single-piece multitool.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 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
  • The gap lower at the open is what most traders are watching.
    Jay Woods, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An unwinding of pessimism amongst short-term option traders could help MU keep charging higher.
    Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 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
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019

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