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Recent Examples of ferryboat
Right now, engineers and craft workers are teaming up to design and build the new ferryboat.
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Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.
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Eric Duvall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
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Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
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Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.
—
Eric Duvall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferryboat
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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).
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On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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In Seattle, fans can catch the matches on a floating barge or watch them live on a giant LED screen at Pier 62.
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Officials said the fireworks will be launched from the east side of the bridge between the two towers, along with a barge off the bridge and a second barge near Pier 39.
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Use a garment steamer for easier wrinkle-removal.
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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.
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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.
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The 747’s fusion of aeronautical ability and symbolic power earned it many roles beyond passenger liner and freighter.
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Paz said that the state of emergency is intended to guarantee fuel supplies, which have become increasingly scarce as roadblocks have left tanker trucks stranded.
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There has been very limited demand to book tankers to load oil from ports in the Persian Gulf, a step that would need to happen for shipments from the export installations to happen, shipbrokers and tanker owners said Friday.
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Authorities have intercepted six watercraft that illegally attempted to launch on Lake Tahoe amid a campaign to keep golden mussels and other invasive species out of the iconic Sierra lake.
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Personal watercraft are one-to-two people vessels often referred to as Jet Skis, the brand name of a popular model made by Kawasaki.
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Now, in Crimea, Kyiv is systematically targeting key transport links and supply routes connecting the peninsula to southern Russian forces, aiming to disrupt logistics and isolate military infrastructure there.
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Poland and Ukraine are using the event to finalize a new bilateral, intergovernmental pact designed to cover transport, energy, and logistics.
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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