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Noun
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Luckily, the zombies in 28 Years Later have yet to invent longboats, so the island society has been able to endure, albeit on a semi-permanent war footing.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
3 July 2025 -
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
Noun
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This logic linked Ehrlich’s ecological carrying capacity, lifeboat ethics – the idea that wealthy nations risked being swamped by immigration – and reactionary anxieties about demographic change.—
Brian C. Keegan,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s deep-space crew vehicle — the astronauts' home, control room, and lifeboat for the entire journey around the moon.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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The cost of taking corn and soybeans to market, whether via truck, barge or rail, also goes up along with oil prices.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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The company plans to transport Starships built in Texas via barge to Florida to help scale up the program and to begin launch operations there.—
Brandon Lingle,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Despite its high-concept stakes, reviews have focused on the tender relationship study of a family haunted, literally and figuratively, by their choices.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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Meats are juicy and tender; vegetables are caramelized and subtly sweetened.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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A couple of cutters, couple of good sliders.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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His relied heavily on his four-seam fastball, but mixed in the rest of his arsenal — the slider (18 times), changeup (10 times), sweeper (nine times), curveball (eight times) and cutter (five times) — to keep opponents off balanced.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
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Belmond plans to launch the elegant riverboat in Burgundy, France, in late summer.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
17 Mar. 2026
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Pure Amazon is the Amazon’s newest—and most stylish—riverboat.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In [The Assassination of Gianni Versace], after the assassination, Andrew Cunanan kills himself on a houseboat.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
27 Mar. 2026
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The pair lived on a houseboat while transforming the place into a lunch counter.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Bumboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bumboat. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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