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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collier
Noun
  • The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 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
  • Unlike most apple pie recipes, this one calls for the apples to be steamed in a steamer basket.
    Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Save on a clothes steamer with more than 80,500 five-star ratings and this Warner’s wireless bra that reviewers agree is soft, supportive, and comfortable.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Anemoi revealed that the sails were transported by barge and lifted directly onto the deck.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina, another company is marketing a 31-room floating hotel — resembling a converted barge — with stays from $270 a night.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Guess where most cord cutters and cord nevers are flocking instead for their broadcast and cable fix?
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Two weeks ago, Ramírez clobbered a cutter from Troy Melton for a go-ahead home run to complete a sweep in Detroit.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The mission architecture included OOR, consisting of multiple tanker vehicles launched to service a refueling depot in LEO.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Other agencies would also be involved in trying to determine whether the company that owned the tanker had complied with regulations.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Collier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collier. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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