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icebreaker

noun

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as in supper

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as in barge

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Recent Examples of icebreaker 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 It was converted into the world’s first Class 1 icebreaker superyacht in 2003, then refitted for luxury travel in 2016 and rechristened Legend. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for icebreaker

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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
Janet is at boarding school and the usual domestic routine—breakfast, school uniform, drop-off, pickup, playdate, supper, homework, bath, bed—has been blown to bits.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of supper

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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
Once the plant reaches the end of its operational lifespan, tugboats will tow the entire barge to a specialized shipyard for decommissioning.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

Definition of barge

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Ewing made an out that did stand in the bottom half, racing toward the line for a belly-first grab on Dubón's liner that appeared headed toward the corner.

— CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Lip liner sales grew 36 percent in the mass market and 34 percent in prestige, effectively playing the role today that lip treatments played from 2022 to 2024 when those skyrocketed in popularity post-Rhode.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 11 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

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Six vessels moved into the Persian Gulf — five cargo ships and one tanker — while one cargo ship exited into the Gulf of Oman.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, a tanker reported hearing two explosions off the coast of Oman while transiting Hormuz, according to a Wednesday incident report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

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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
The central bank skips an August meeting as the Kansas City Fed hosts its annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026

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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
The seasoning’s name is a nod to the region’s maritime history and is named for the Old Bay Line, a passenger steamship that traveled the Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia, in the early 1900s.

— Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 31 July 2026

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