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home port

noun

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as in seaport

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Recent Examples of home port Not only are there multiple home ports throughout the south to choose from, but there are also a handful of ships sailing from these ports. — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026 Most of the ships serviced at the base have San Diego as their home port. — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026 The crew of Burmese and Chinese sailors will sail back to home port in China. — Npr Staff, NPR, 23 Mar. 2026 This stop will assess what can be fixed immediately and what requires attention at its home port in Norfolk. — Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for home port

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Noun

America's oldest seaport, established in 1623, still works hard for a living, with its trawlers sharing the harbor with whale-watch boats and schooners.

— Jenn Sinrich, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2026
Morgues were at capacity, so corpses had been laid in a parking lot, then moved to a seaport, where the stench of death hung heavy.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of seaport

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Its songwriting is modern and progressive, while its sound is vintage country, as though it were pulled straight out of 1960s Nashville.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2026
Since then, the group has become one of the biggest rock acts in the world, and its edgy sound has continued to evolve, becoming slightly more appealing to a wider audience while simultaneously shaping what rock music is like today.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of sound

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The agency’s testing identified cyclospora in two samples taken from a canal that the farm used for irrigation.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
The Ada County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed in a police shooting Thursday near a canal and gas station at the South Cloverdale and West Overland roads intersection in Boise.

— Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026

Definition of canal

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The site now features dedicated processing bays and automated digital X-ray inspection equipment that reduce inspection time and improve manufacturing throughput.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
Starship is designed to launch 60 Starlink V3 satellites at a time, spitting them out through a slit-like payload bay door like a giant PEZ candy dispenser.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of bay

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For direct charging from the grid, Aboard installs a NACS inlet for both AC charging at the campground and Level 3 DC fast-charging at EV stations.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 July 2026
Rozelle brought the idea to his church, The Church by the Sea — a nondenominational Christian congregation of a few hundred people that sits on an inlet with 860 feet of coastline.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

Definition of inlet

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That’s also the figure governments across South Florida rely on when adapting infrastructure like roads, or planning new ones.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

Definition of roads

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Forbes was also a public figure in a proposal to redevelop Fisherman’s Wharf, which envisions constructing a public plaza and adding a new overlook and lighting to the wharf’s inner lagoon.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Pirates Voyage Pirates Voyage is built around full-size ships, an indoor lagoon and a four-course dinner served during the show.

— Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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