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flagship

noun

Definition of flagship

as in warship

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Recent Examples of flagship After it was demolished in 1929, the current flagship hotel was completed in 1931. — Miami Herald, 9 July 2026 Alarmist Brewing, best known for its flagship Le Jus, an award-winning Hazy IPA, closed the doors on its 12-year-old Peterson Avenue brewery and taproom in February amid a flat post-pandemic craft beer market. — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 Ferrari is now bringing back the manual to Maranello, specifically, to its flagship V12 model, with the new 12Cilinidri Manuale. — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 8 July 2026 Sony decided to celebrate its flagship 1000X headphone line’s 10th birthday by releasing its most premium set yet. — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for flagship

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Noun

For Odysseus’ main vessel, the production used the Draken, a 115-foot boat located in Stavanger, Norway, that the art department could transform into a Mycenaean warship with relatively few modifications.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026
The ceremony moves the warship closer to delivery as the Navy expands a fleet designed to counter increasingly complex air and missile threats.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026

Definition of warship

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Those who chose to rest on the banks of the Potomac River could be seen by steamship passengers playing bridge and dancing in the river breeze.

— Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country.

— Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of steamship

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Authorities say the pontoon boat collided with a barge and that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investigating.

— Ashley Grams, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Eisenberger is a former deputy aide for Collins who most recently worked for American Waterways Operators, the national trade association for the barge, towboat and tugboat industry.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of barge

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Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026
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

Definition of freighter

Noun

Yellow evidence markers charted at least 28 shells from the exchange of gunfire, most of them clustered around the driver’s side door of Heflin’s cruiser.

— Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026
No injuries were reported, but Bartletto quickly got the attention of a group of officers, members of an NYPD Mobile Force Command, sitting in an unmarked cruiser a short distance from the shooting.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026

Definition of cruiser

Noun

Its Russian captain allegedly acted on Russian intelligence and a Russian corvette ran reconnaissance.

— Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
The navy also fields six Osa II missile boats, Pauk-class corvettes, minesweepers and numerous smaller patrol and support craft.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026

Definition of corvette

Noun

Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.

— Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of tanker

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