icebreaker

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Recent Examples of icebreaker Expedition specialist Ponant will offer a series of summer trips to the North Pole aboard the 123-cabin Le Commandant Charcot, a luxury icebreaker. Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2025 Ponant There’s nothing as thrilling as cutting through yards-thick sheets of ice aboard Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker. Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025 Having a task like lighting candles or helping set the table or making the salad dressing together is a nice icebreaker. Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025 The event includes speakers, panelists and a lot of fun icebreaker activities such as double Dutch jump rope, hula-hooping and karaoke. Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for icebreaker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
Noun
  • For a weeknight winner or Sunday supper, try this dish that's hearty, cheesy, meaty, and delicious.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Breakfast and a hearty supper is included in the nightly room rate.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Holding a drone show in its place would not require a barge and would cost $80,000 to $100,000, said Amy Jean-Baptiste, the city Parks and Recreation Deputy Director.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Kunis, 42, looked glamorous in a strapless black and white Carolina Herrera gown with a corseted bodice and pleated tea-length skirt.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Mobile shelters have been set up in the capital, offering spaces where locals can warm up, recharge their phones and other devices and drink warm tea, according to the state emergency service.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Minnesota Wild fourth-liner Ben Jones found himself in some unfamiliar territory late Saturday, as a crowd of media packed in around his locker stall for postgame interviews.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The parts reportedly included two broken silver pieces and one black plastic liner piece.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Program Director Kayce Goley says the monthly social was started after COVID to try to regain engagement among the community that had been cooped up for two years.
    Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Buy them, share them on your socials, tell your friends.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Putin is yet to comment on the developments related to the tanker, which the US had previously sanctioned for carrying illicit Iranian oil.
    Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Fox News was first to report that SEALs seized the tanker.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Haidt, whose New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation came recommended from Gordon-Levitt onstage, recently appeared at a Dartmouth–United Nations Development Program symposium on mental health among young people and used the metaphor of tree roots for neurons.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The full selection of Lightroom projects will be unveiled in December, alongside details of a dedicated symposium on the future of immersive storytelling.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The steamship was capable of carrying over 1,100 passengers and crew.
    Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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