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as in supper
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as in barge
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Recent Examples of icebreaker
This is about, as the polar ice caps pull back, the Chinese are now cranking out icebreakers and pushing up there as well.
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Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
My friend was so sour about my community icebreakers.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
It was meant to be a friendly, low-stakes icebreaker; explained as an activity that Maezawa and his team frequently played together.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
An adequate European presence requires basing more infrastructure, rapid-reaction capabilities, reliable communications, and most urgently, icebreakers there.
—Michael E. O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
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Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
My friend was so sour about my community icebreakers.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
It was meant to be a friendly, low-stakes icebreaker; explained as an activity that Maezawa and his team frequently played together.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
An adequate European presence requires basing more infrastructure, rapid-reaction capabilities, reliable communications, and most urgently, icebreakers there.
—Michael E. O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
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The Dinner Menu Filets, quinoa, sautéed spinach, and red wine were on the menu for supper with the in-laws.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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On June 16, Cousin invited Walter for supper at her home.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2025
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Until this factory is up and running, SpaceX plans to transport Starships and Super Heavy boosters horizontally via barges from South Texas to Cape Canaveral.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 9,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2025
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Elliot said the crane will be removed by an even larger crane perched atop a barge.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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Women sometimes drank a tea of juneberry twigs and stems to recover from childbirth, and a tonic made from the plant’s bark was thought to hasten the discharge of the placenta.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2025
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Aside from that, there don’t seem to be a lot of public examples of anything significantly interesting happening between the two prominent tech people (Murati and Musk, that is.) OK, enough tea.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Fill each cupcake liner with approx 2 tbsp of batter, or until each liner is 3/4 full.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Merchant haulage is a clause in which the shipper is responsible for arranging and paying for the inland transportation of goods, and not the container shipping liner.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
30 June 2025
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Fortunately, campuses are starting to respond — with substance-free housing, wellness events and mocktail socials that prove sobriety can be social.—
Rebecca Styn,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2025
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The indirect echo, which is all the media and social that doesn’t come from the social account of the celebrity or the social account of the brand, represents 77 percent.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
28 May 2025
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During the recent conflict, the Israeli Air Force demonstrated an impressive capability to reach targets deep inside Iran while relying on its aged Boeing 707 tankers for refueling its fighter jets.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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While some Iranian cargoes are shipped directly from Iran to China, the majority undergo multiple ship-to-ship transfers, often in the Middle East Gulf or the Strait of Malacca, where Iranian oil transported by sanctioned vessels is transferred to non-sanctioned tankers before shipping to China.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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The presence of the aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships gives Trump the option of a third carrier group in the Middle East if needed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 June 2025
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Tokyo is converting warships into aircraft carriers capable of deploying stealth fighter jets, while Seoul has outlined plans to build a vessel equipped with dozens of drones.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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Blumhouse just announced at its recent Business of Fear symposium that Spencer is coming back for another film.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
11 June 2025
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That included additional consulting services, like public outreach and housing symposiums.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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