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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collier
Noun
  • The original Dow index from 1884 had 11 stocks in it, and nine of them were railroads (the other two were a steamship company and Western Union).
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 15 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, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Use a garment steamer for easier wrinkle-removal.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
  • 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
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 dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • The organization also noted that the barge carrying the fireworks was around two miles from Jackie and Shadow’s nest and that the show was scheduled to finish in under 30 minutes.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • The 747’s fusion of aeronautical ability and symbolic power earned it many roles beyond passenger liner and freighter.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Miguel Vargas then hit a 1-1 cutter from Mitch Spence over the left-field wall for his 18th home run of the season to give the Sox a 3-0 lead.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • His last three cutter-drones raced past the frightened spawn siblings to the wall.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The tanker was laden with more than 2 million barrels of crude oil and sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Commercial shipping at center of tensions Britain's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said June 27 that a tanker reported being struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, sustaining damage to its bridge, though all crew members were reported safe.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • New stops and set-ups for traders and investors who took our calls in Interactive Brokers (IBKR) , Caterpillar (CAT) and Delta (DAL) .
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • The fear of missing out often pushes traders to pile into buzzy memecoins or the newest, hottest token.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune, 22 June 2026

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“Collier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collier. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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