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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier
The Navy has 16 warships — 11 destroyers, three amphibious assault ships, an aircraft carrier, and a littoral combat ship — in the Middle East out of a battle force of roughly 300 total warships.
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Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
On April 15, the USS Gerald Ford broke the record for the longest deployment of any aircraft carrier since the Cold War – 295 days.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
The San Diego aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is in the background, training west of San Diego for possible assignment to the Middle East, the Navy says.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Thousands of troops are headed for the region; a third aircraft carrier is en route; and the Pentagon is committing nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles to the Mideast.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
On April 15, the USS Gerald Ford broke the record for the longest deployment of any aircraft carrier since the Cold War – 295 days.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
The San Diego aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is in the background, training west of San Diego for possible assignment to the Middle East, the Navy says.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Thousands of troops are headed for the region; a third aircraft carrier is en route; and the Pentagon is committing nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles to the Mideast.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
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Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
10 Apr. 2026
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On the threat to merchant ships, Trump projected uncertainty.—
Ana Ceballos,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The tanker had departed from the port of Berbera and was heading to the Somali capital of Mogadishu when it was intercepted, a colonel with the Puntland Maritime Police Force told The Associated Press.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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On Saturday, the Hoehne Fire Protection District shared a video of an air tanker assisting in the suppression efforts.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Then Vodnik threw a first-pitch cutter to Gavin Sheets.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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The Coast Guard shared video of Air Force pararescuemen leaping from a C-130 Hercules airplane to meet the crew of a Coast Guard cutter on Sunday.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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For those unfamiliar with USH’s WaterWorld venue, the Grand Pirate Show will lean into its best offerings — stunts and fight choreography, special effects, watercraft, pyrotechnics, and audience engagement — for an epic show running on select nights between April 23 and May 16.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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What’s killing the whales San Francisco Bay is a busy urban waterway, with high-speed ferries, cargo ships, commercial fishing vessels and recreational watercraft.—
Daniel Crocker,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Operating six weekly flights with a dedicated FedEx Boeing 777 freighter, shipments from Vietnam are consolidated in Ho Chi Minh City before being transported to Singapore for a direct flight to Anchorage.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2026
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Companies with agricultural supply chains — from food and beverage manufacturers to commodity traders, insurers, and logistics firms — absorb fertilizer shocks through input costs, contract failures, and sovereign credit risk in key sourcing markets.—
Carlos Alvarado Quesada,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Polymarket traders have even reported that Nate has a 52% chance of dying in Euphoria Season 3.—
Allison DeGrushe,
StyleCaster,
27 Apr. 2026
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Using highly specialized transporters, engineers maneuvered the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt, from inside NASA Michoud to the agency’s Pegasus barge.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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The barge has taken measures to contain and collect the vegetable oil.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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