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as in carrying
to support and take from one place to another
there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground
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as in sailing
to travel on water in a vessel
we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles
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Recent Examples of ferrying
This includes the company's Falcon 9 rocket, which has become the workhorse of global launches, ferrying cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station under contracts with NASA, among many other tasks.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Reuters Television images showed helicopters ferrying out the affected, while residents helped security forces and medics carry the wounded to ambulances in an area with a long history of earthquakes and floods.
—Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
And Musk sees Starship, designed to be fully reusable, as core to fulfilling his goal of routinely ferrying humans to Mars.
—Reuters, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Eight helicopters are also operating from the base, ferrying personnel and equipment to Severny and Pankovo, the latter home to the launch site for the Burevestnik missile.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the explosion on the ship, which was ferrying coal and headed to East Africa.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
The ferrying cargo ships became high-value targets themselves.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Reuters Television images showed helicopters ferrying out the affected, while residents helped security forces and medics carry the wounded to ambulances in an area with a long history of earthquakes and floods.
—Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
And Musk sees Starship, designed to be fully reusable, as core to fulfilling his goal of routinely ferrying humans to Mars.
—Reuters, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Eight helicopters are also operating from the base, ferrying personnel and equipment to Severny and Pankovo, the latter home to the launch site for the Burevestnik missile.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the explosion on the ship, which was ferrying coal and headed to East Africa.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
The ferrying cargo ships became high-value targets themselves.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferrying
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SpaceX lands Falcon 9 boosters on offshore drone ships after most of its launches and only brings the rocket back to an onshore landing on missions carrying lighter payloads to orbit.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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The deal with YouTube caps off a tumultuous year for Sesame Workshop, which lost its output deal with HBO last December, though the streaming platform inked a deal to continue carrying some library programming.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Soderstrom followed with a drive to left, where Ward moved in and to his left before realizing the ball was sailing over his right shoulder.—
Mike Digiovanna,
Oc Register,
7 Sep. 2025
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Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean also encourages guests to dress up during voyages sailing over Halloween.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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SUVs with government tags pull up, hauling a boat emblazoned with US Department of Interior branding.—
Wesley Bruer,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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But there have still been high-profile rail bridge collapses like the one in Montana two years ago that sent a train hauling petroleum products into the Yellowstone River, sending tar balls downstream that had to be cleaned up.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Be sure to stop by DeLuca’s Pizza and SQZBX Brewery & Pizza Joint, which are musts after working up an appetite hiking the trails and boating the waterways.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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Fellow Chicago boaters said that the boating community is mourning the loss of Abzal.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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It also can be intentionally released if pressure in the system poses a safety risk or if capturing and transporting it to be sold is not profitable.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Emergency services arrived within minutes, treating the wounded and transporting others to local hospitals.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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When the pair ended their relationship, the bully didn’t stop, even sending texts to Owen’s new love interest and her mother.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Without him, the team play in Tehran and, despite losing, somehow win on points, sending them through to the World Cup.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Ferrying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferrying. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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