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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier
With a full-length flight deck capable of supporting helicopters and tilt-rotor aircraft, the ship functions much like a small aircraft carrier.
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
As a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, the Essex resembles a small aircraft carrier that can carry more than 1,000 sailors and 1,500 Marines, allowing the U.S. to rapidly deploy troops in regions such as the Persian Gulf and South China Sea.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 21 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
Along the way, the trucks pull up to high-profile spots including a NASCAR raceway, a busy beach boardwalk and even a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 31 July 2025
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
As a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, the Essex resembles a small aircraft carrier that can carry more than 1,000 sailors and 1,500 Marines, allowing the U.S. to rapidly deploy troops in regions such as the Persian Gulf and South China Sea.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 21 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
Along the way, the trucks pull up to high-profile spots including a NASCAR raceway, a busy beach boardwalk and even a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
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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
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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
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Other defensive elements included an Italian AWACS surveillance aircraft, a NATO refueling tanker, and a German Patriot air defense system, the New York Times reported.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bank of America upgrades Scorpio Tankers to buy from neutral Bank of America said cash generation is increasing for the tanker company.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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There will also be personalized watercraft racing off the beach at Crown Point Shores.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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Compared to the cutter, which hit the zone 57% of the time, his changeup had a stark 17% zone rate.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sauer has six pitches in his arsenal, mainly relying on a cutter, four-seam fastball, slider and sinker while also mixing in a split finger and occasional curveball.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Daryl was able to get to France on a freighter.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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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
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And yet interest rate traders are 100% convinced a cut is coming at the Fed’s next meeting.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Stocks rose sharply following the reports as traders priced in an even greater probability of interest rate reductions ahead.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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