as in yacht
a boat equipped with one or more sails
we went sailing on the secluded lake in a little two-person dinghy
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Recent Examples of dinghy
An additional autonomous dinghy could serve as the above water collection point.
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
That’s why the entire system consists of an unmanned service boat with a dinghy, a drone, a small underwater search robot and the TUM diving robot.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
In the video, Heslop and Bane were captured on camera walking together before getting on board a dinghy and sailing away.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
That’s why the entire system consists of an unmanned service boat with a dinghy, a drone, a small underwater search robot and the TUM diving robot.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
In the video, Heslop and Bane were captured on camera walking together before getting on board a dinghy and sailing away.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinghy
Noun
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He is also accused of using his salary, which he is capped at a maximum of $400,000 plus certain fees, to buy things such as a 68-foot yacht and a home in Cocoplum.—
Ana Maria Soler,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The company is currently working to power a wide range of vessels that includes VTOLs, race boats and yachts, motorcycles and defense platforms, manufacturing motors at its 86,000-sq ft three-site facility in Milton Keynes, UK.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
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There are also significant doubts there are enough Navy ships to escort commercial vessels, given that 60 or more tankers typically traverse the strait each day.—
Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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Since the war began Saturday, ships have been attacked in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's oil is shipped.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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The other Charlottes After the schooner was sold in Pensacola five years later, the next ship — named the North Carolina — was commissioned in 1908, according to the Commander Submarine Force website.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
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Bob Dylan, too, passed through, once working with a local shipbuilder on a custom wooden schooner called Water Pearl, delighted that the unbothered locals did not recognize him.—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
14 Feb. 2026
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While on a very long sailboat race last week, my partner expounded on the Great Filter theory.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Set the scene Nearly all guests arrive the most comfortable way, connecting through San Juan on a Tradewind Aviation prop plane to Tortola's Beef Island, a 90-minute ride low enough to count the sailboats moored off Virgin Gorda.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
24 Feb. 2026
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Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The third Charlotte ship, a patrol frigate, was manned by the Coast Guard during World War II.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
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Spain will send its Christopher Columbus frigate to Cyprus, joining France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and other Greek navy ships, its defense ministry said in a statement.—
Jasmine Green,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Dinghy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinghy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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