collier

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Recent Examples of collier On the red carpet, there were many classic diamond colliers and bibs, from Mikey Madison’s Tiffany & Co. Shannon Adducci, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2025 Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider. IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024 This particular pearl collier can be spotted on Hepburn’s neck in the final scene of Roman Holiday. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2023 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 Dressed in a magenta silk slip dress from the house’s spring/summer 2003 ready-to-wear collection, one of the iconic Massai collier de Chien chokers from Galliano’s Dior debut and a pair of gold python sandals from Tom Ford, Rihanna went full fashion nerd. Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 28 June 2021 On the way home, the collier made a stop (some say unplanned) in Barbados for coal. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023 USS Langley, a converted collier that could carry up to 36 planes, was completed in 1922 in Norfolk, Virginia. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2022 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
Noun
  • In 1860, Ingram died while sailing aboard the Lady Elgin, a steamship that sank after being hit by another vessel on Lake Michigan.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
  • En route to Milwaukee, one of the steamships, the Sultana, lost 42 Essex Super Six cars and sedans overboard.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Harris notes the large market for shower steamers with energizing scents that help people wake up.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 July 2025
  • This unit comes with 12 pieces, including a long spray nozzle, a round brush, and a fabric steamer tool.
    Michelle Lau, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • This company's launch vehicle, simply named Maia, is designed with a recoverable and reusable booster stage that will land on an offshore barge following liftoff from the Guiana Space Center in South America.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2025
  • An unpermitted fireworks barge that exploded, injuring a half-dozen people in Alabama.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • This is no more outlandish than Carol’s flight to France by way of Greenland, or Daryl’s voyage on a massive freighter.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • The company grew steadily over the next 50 years, buying its first seven Boeing 727s freighters after two years of lobbying led to Congress deregulating air cargo.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • And the cutter the first inning, just got his hands inside of it and kept it fair.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • Rockies starter Kyle Freeland fired a first-pitch cutter.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Benjamin Stone: Serving from 1937 to 1941, Stone was the keeper when the U.S. Lighthouse Service was disbanded and all lighthouses and lightships were placed under the supervision of the Coast Guard.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025
  • Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
    Longreads, Longreads, 4 May 2023
Noun
  • Air tankers dropped nearly 180,000 gallons of fire retardant on July 13 alone.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
  • Two single-engine air tankers based in Mesquite delivered fire retardant to assist with initial suppression efforts before dark, according to the report.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025

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“Collier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collier. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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