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icebreaker

noun

Definition of icebreaker

as in supper

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as in barge

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Recent Examples of icebreaker Lead a warm icebreaker at work and post a heartfelt note that encourages people to try something new alongside you, generously. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2026 After all, a book is just the icebreaker at a local meeting of the Silent Book Club, which has events all over the world. — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 Russia is also compelling private foreign vessels in the NSR to use Russian ice pilots and icebreaker escorts. — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026 Channel breakouts, where a vessel has to deviate from a path cut by an icebreaker, are also testable here. — Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for icebreaker

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Noun

Multiple customers were hospitalized after a car drove through the front of a busy restaurant during the supper rush, Harrisburg police say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026
Bloomfield oversees the resort’s culinary activities too, like a fireside supper for two and a special picnic basket to take on a scenic hike.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of supper

Noun

The barge clearance level at Kaub on the Rhine, a key chokepoint for river shipments to southern Germany and Switzerland, continues to drop.

— Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
In other parts of the route, the road drops close enough to the river so that drivers can watch barge traffic on the Mississippi.

— Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026

Definition of barge

Noun

The National Tunnel needs a 295-foot steel liner, similar to work used to repair the Greer Tunnel two years ago in Peters Township.

— Megan Shinn, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Skin tints, blurring balms, four kinds of lip liner—amid an increasing bevy of products to choose between, choice paralysis begs the question of what a makeup routine actually requires.

— Valeriya Chupinina, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026

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Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher recently followed the band on socials.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 10 June 2026
Jensen was the first female comic to win NY’s Funniest Stand-Up Award at the New York Comedy Festival and has amassed over a million followers across her socials, as well as over two million views on her YouTube specials.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 May 2026

Definition of social

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At least one ship entered using the Iranian route, and a small tanker laden with Iranian fuel oil exited, data showed.

— August 17, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Of the outbound traffic, four vessels — including a tanker laden with 2 million barrels of Saudi crude - sailed with their satellite trackers off.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

Since then, the company has emerged as a key strategic firm in the country’s ambition to dominate future technology, with its founder Wang Xingxing seated in the front row at President Xi Jinping’s rare symposium with top tech businesses last year.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
The symposium was moved from a 400-seat auditorium at the National Gallery to a meeting room at Dumbarton Oaks that seats 80.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of symposium

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Most reached the region by steamship to Skagway or nearby Dyea, Alaska, before attempting to cross the Coast Mountains via the White Pass or Chilkoot trails.

— Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
The ferry also stops on Ellis Island, part of the national park, and is famous for processing more than 12 million immigrant steamship passengers through its federal immigration station from 1892 to 1954.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2026

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