aircraft carrier

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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier The technology is primarily used in military vessels, especially aircraft carriers and submarines, as well as Russian icebreakers in the Arctic. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 June 2025 The Pentagon is expediting the deployment of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and other ships to the Middle East, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Nbc News, NBC news, 18 June 2025 The Pentagon, meanwhile, is moving more warships and another aircraft carrier to the Middle East, NBC reported. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 17 June 2025 There are about 3,600 bunkers on Sazan, armored cement mushrooms emerging from the vegetation or perched on mountaintops like lookouts against phantom American aircraft carriers or Soviet frigates. Marzio Mian, The Dial, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
Noun
  • In addition, German submarines sank some 34 Brazilian merchant ships during the conflict, reports Divernet’s Steve Weinman.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Vance broke from President Donald Trump, who directed the U.S. to ramp up strikes against the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen which, backed by Iran, began escalating attacks on merchant ships along the major trade route following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • During the recent conflict, the Israeli Air Force demonstrated an impressive capability to reach targets deep inside Iran while relying on its aged Boeing 707 tankers for refueling its fighter jets.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • While some Iranian cargoes are shipped directly from Iran to China, the majority undergo multiple ship-to-ship transfers, often in the Middle East Gulf or the Strait of Malacca, where Iranian oil transported by sanctioned vessels is transferred to non-sanctioned tankers before shipping to China.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Participants must bring their own watercraft, personal flotation device, whistle, and a white electric light.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025
  • Orioles minor leaguer Luis Guevara has died after the 19-year-old was involved in a personal watercraft crash in Sarasota, Florida, on Sunday.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Brown will regain his role as the team’s backup floor general and will thrive as a cutter, screener, and transition player in his minutes with Jokic and Murray.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Grossman said initially the maker space was by appointment only, but now there are open hours where people can make things with a 3D printer, a laser cutter, sublimation machines to put a design on materials, a sewing machine, embroidery equipment and more.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • May 9 marks the anniversary of when part of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed into Tampa Bay after it was struck by a freighter during a storm.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The bitcoin price has soared toward its all-time high of $112,000 per bitcoin, with traders betting a looming Federal Reserve flip will turbo-charge the crypto market.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Crude oil traders appear cautiously optimistic, though.
    Jim Sergent, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Many arrived aboard elegant steamships, but the number of guests increased once regional railroads built tracks north to Mackinaw City in the early 1880s.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
  • Moulton spent five weeks traveling by steamship, train and stagecoach to Santa Ana, arriving on May 6, 1874.
    Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 19 May 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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