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Recent Examples of collier
Sotheby’s will offer Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu assis au collier (Seated Nude with Necklace), 1917, later this month.
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Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
McKinney’s Bloem collier was the centerpiece, an asymmetrical botanical design.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
Emory, who lives about a half-hour from the forge, was able to trace her ancestry to Robert Patterson, a free African American with ties to Catoctin who worked as a collier, producing the charcoal used to run furnaces, and who also owned a farm.
—Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 3 Aug. 2023
On the way home, the collier made a stop (some say unplanned) in Barbados for coal.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
—The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
McKinney’s Bloem collier was the centerpiece, an asymmetrical botanical design.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
Emory, who lives about a half-hour from the forge, was able to trace her ancestry to Robert Patterson, a free African American with ties to Catoctin who worked as a collier, producing the charcoal used to run furnaces, and who also owned a farm.
—Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 3 Aug. 2023
On the way home, the collier made a stop (some say unplanned) in Barbados for coal.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
—The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collier
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But Kutepov’s successor at ROVS, General Yevgeny Miller, in 1937 was also kidnapped in Paris and transported to Moscow in the hold of a Soviet steamship before being executed at Lubyanka.—
ANDREI SOLDATOV,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Nov. 2025
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As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Nov. 2025
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For Feeling Put-together After a Flight Nothing pulls a travel outfit together faster than wrinkle-free clothes, and this compact steamer makes the process surprisingly painless.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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If creases bother you, pack a portable steamer or hang it near a hot shower, Coe suggests.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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The recent barge mishaps are symptoms of a supply-chain strategy warped by a century-old law that makes the most efficient vessels unaffordable.—
Colin Grabow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
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And with just a few commands, Cup of Jo went global, with images of Jo's Coffee Shop on a barge in the middle of the ocean; on a volcano in Hawaii; and in the Alps.—
Jo Ling Kent,
CBS News,
7 Dec. 2025
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Airbus is also developing the A350F freighter, which is expected to complete its first flight later this year.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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The lane with the strongest demand growth, Europe-Asia, also generated the largest incremental freighter contribution, adding more than 409 million CTKs as industrial trade flows between both regions remained resilient.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
28 May 2026
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The clothes on show at Haute Couture are hand-sewn, hand-embellished and expertly crafted by a fleet of artisanal seamstresses, tailors, pattern cutters and other garment workers in ateliers.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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Didn’t have a feel for my cutter.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Local authorities reported that the tanker was experiencing a fire in its engine room, with the incident unfolding around 21 nautical miles northeast of the city of Sohar.—
Sarah Dean,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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And on Thursday, US forces fired missiles into the engine room of a third tanker, the Guinea-Bissau flagged M/T Jalveer, for attempting to transport Iranian oil.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Built by brothers William and Charles Bent in 1833, the original fort thrived for 16 years as a hub where fur traders, Native Americans and Mexican merchants converged to do business.—
Kevin Strong,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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But traders see it as a near certainty that the Fed will leave its main interest rate steady after its two-day meeting ends Wednesday.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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The clapboard houses, lightship baskets, and roses climbing up the side of Sconset roofs inspired a sense of permanence.—
William D. Cohan,
Air Mail,
23 Aug. 2025
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From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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“Collier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collier. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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