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as in riverboat
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as in trailer
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Recent Examples of houseboat
This maze of lakes and islands hosts houseboats as well as celestial reflections, with auroras possible by dint of its location at 48 degrees north along the U.S.-Canada border.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
All three of those tenets are found within the one-bedroom, two-bath abode, which replaced an aging houseboat that had occupied the slip for decades.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Fitzgerald began publishing fiction at age fifty-eight, and won the 1979 Booker Prize for her third novel Offshore, based on her experience living on a rundown houseboat in London.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 12, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
The historic Amsterdam waterways offer roughly 2,500 houseboats docked along their banks year-round.
—Dan Q. Dao, Architectural Digest, 8 Mar. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
All three of those tenets are found within the one-bedroom, two-bath abode, which replaced an aging houseboat that had occupied the slip for decades.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Fitzgerald began publishing fiction at age fifty-eight, and won the 1979 Booker Prize for her third novel Offshore, based on her experience living on a rundown houseboat in London.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 12, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
The historic Amsterdam waterways offer roughly 2,500 houseboats docked along their banks year-round.
—Dan Q. Dao, Architectural Digest, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for houseboat
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Above ground, the Meramec Cavern complex includes a campground and a motel, in addition to a zip line, climbing wall, and riverboat tours.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
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Pure Amazon is the company’s first riverboat in South America.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
21 Oct. 2025
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La Bodeguita, a creative wellness space and craft café, recently opened its first brick-and-mortar studio after outgrowing its trailer at Camp North End’s Boileryard District, CharlotteFive previously reported.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
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In January 2022, several cynomolgus macaque monkeys escaped when a truck towing a trailer of about 100 of the animals collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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The complaint accused Coconut Grove Sailing Club and three counselors, including the one who operated the motorboat, of various counts of negligence.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Leith returned me to shore in a motorboat.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Upload speeds and latency lag behind strong 5G, and performance can suffer under heavy tree cover or in congested areas where mobile/RV traffic is deprioritized.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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Strangers road-tripping in Italy find themselves in the center of a satanic cult after crashing their RV.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Interested parties will also have a chance to buy an Aero Hunton XRS37 powerboat.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Powering over the horizon on my beloved center console powerboat and not wearing a shirt for long periods of time!—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The brick farmhouse dates to the 1840s, and from the outside, not much has changed.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
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One of them is Wood Farm, a five-bedroom farmhouse that some have speculated could be Andrew Windsor's new home.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That misses the point of a pontoon boat, not to mention living on a nice piece of lakeshore.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
25 Oct. 2025
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Kelly’s father owned a pontoon boat that, in high school, had been off limits.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Both the Bay Bridge and Francis Scott Key Bridge are under limited restrictions, meaning no house trailers or empty box trailers are allowed to travel through, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.—
Dan Belson,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Mar. 2023
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Burglary There was a burglary to a house trailer in the 7300 block of McCormick Boulevard on Jan. 8 in which an unknown person used a pry tool to pry open a door on a mobile trailer.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2023
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“Houseboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/houseboat. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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