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Recent Examples of anchorage Several small craft broken away from moorings, especially in unprotected anchorages. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2025 The yacht will remain in the Mediterranean for the season, allowing her owner to explore storied coastlines and hidden anchorages. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2025 After completing a number of other voyages in support of the Korean and Vietnam wars and providing humanitarian assistance to India and Pakistan throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the ship was placed in permanent storage for nearly three decades at a military anchorage site in Suisun Bay. Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025 The marina in Pylos and the Bay of Navarino in general, provide safe anchorages for private yachts, sailing boats and cruise ships. Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anchorage
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Noun
  • Platforms in space Arkisys was founded in 2014 to develop the architecture to create orbital platforms similar to nautical ports.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Who’d have thought Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes ports funding was actually another wind energy subsidy?
    Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Finally, for a quintessential Mackinac moment, grab a seat on the harbor-facing patio at The Pink Pony.
    Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But not all super polluters are not all power plants or oil refineries — for example, in Boston as well as Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, domestic shipping in and out of harbors qualifies as a super polluter.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Anchorage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anchorage. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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