collier

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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. 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
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Noun
  • On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • If creases bother you, pack a portable steamer or hang it near a hot shower, Coe suggests.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • The material itself uses patches of different carbon weaves and laminations, squeezed by vacuum and baked in an autoclave steamer.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 June 2026
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
  • The 150-ton cargo barge was hit about 5 nautical miles off the Omani city of Khasab, Reza Shahidian said, according to Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency.
    Sarah Dean, NBC news, 12 June 2026
  • Crewmembers from two Coast Guard Cutters joined forces with a Homeland Security task force to apprehend the stowaway after boarding the Crimson Clover barge in the San Juan Harbor on Tuesday, officials said in a news release.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The lead was short-lived, however, as Rodriguez led off the fifth by depositing a 0-1 cutter from Alcantara over the wall in right-center field.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
  • The room is available for private events and has a dedicated cutter to hand-slice meat for guests.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • About 60,000 gallons of potable water must be brought daily by tanker truck.
    Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • To map this invisible chaos, the reSail team outfitted the Bow Olympus — a chemical tanker operated by Odfjell — with high-frequency LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • When a fire tore through Kantamanto that January, devouring eight acres, or nearly 60 percent of the market’s retail-facing side, the community of 30,000 retailers, traders and vendors all but lost hope in a business model that was already buckling under fashion’s ever-quickening pace.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • JPMorgan's traders are getting nervous about the state of the current stock market.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 8 June 2026

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“Collier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collier. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.

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