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Recent Examples of containership
The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for containership
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However, a direct trip to Mars would require vast amounts of fuel, so SpaceX plans to use in-orbit refueling, where multiple tanker Starships transfer propellant to a main vehicle before departure.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.—
James Stavridis,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Mules on the towpath along the canal could pull a heavy barge at a clip of 4 miles per hour – far faster than the job of dragging wagons over primitive roads.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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Much of the barge remains above water, albeit at a precarious angle.—
Heather Richardson,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The bilateral drills in the Arabian Sea come after China, which has developed advanced weapons designed to sink enemy ships ships, deployed aircraft to conduct simulated missile attacks on a British warship off the country's coastline last month.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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The two survivors were aboard an American warship, the official added.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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This is my mother’s story that cannot be deleted, this is her legit experiences on steamship of American democracy.—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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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,
6 Oct. 2025
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This 17-piece set includes eight pots and pans in varying sizes, along with their matching lids, as well as a steamer insert.—
Dena Ogden,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
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The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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The most radical change has been the launch of GoldBod, which sets gold prices, issues licenses to domestic traders, provides equipment and training to artisanal miners, and is the only entity allowed to sell gold for export.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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As traders try to assess whether the trade spat will escalate, stocks are fluctuating and pausing their months-long ascent.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Containership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containership. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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