jolly boat

Definition of jolly boatnext

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Noun
  • A couple of cutters, couple of good sliders.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026
  • His relied heavily on his four-seam fastball, but mixed in the rest of his arsenal — the slider (18 times), changeup (10 times), sweeper (nine times), curveball (eight times) and cutter (five times) — to keep opponents off balanced.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This logic linked Ehrlich’s ecological carrying capacity, lifeboat ethics – the idea that wealthy nations risked being swamped by immigration – and reactionary anxieties about demographic change.
    Brian C. Keegan, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s deep-space crew vehicle — the astronauts' home, control room, and lifeboat for the entire journey around the moon.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Despite its high-concept stakes, reviews have focused on the tender relationship study of a family haunted, literally and figuratively, by their choices.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Meats are juicy and tender; vegetables are caramelized and subtly sweetened.
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Luckily, the zombies in 28 Years Later have yet to invent longboats, so the island society has been able to endure, albeit on a semi-permanent war footing.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 July 2025
  • Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • According to the group, there have been 1,492 civilian casualties since the launch of the war.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Engineers at the China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC) in Wuxi, northwest of Shanghai, have announced plans for the country's next tourism destination, expecting commercial launch of affordable trips on these new submersibles by 2030.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The auxiliary, founded in the 1950s, supports the organization’s social service programs through fundraising, donations and volunteer efforts.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • For Arendt, the essay was an attempt to understand how and in what sense that half-century-old history could help explain—far beyond its chronological and geographical boundaries—the ongoing tragedy of the destruction of Europe’s Jews, pursued by the Nazis and their auxiliaries in Hitler’s empire.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The cost of taking corn and soybeans to market, whether via truck, barge or rail, also goes up along with oil prices.
    Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The company plans to transport Starships built in Texas via barge to Florida to help scale up the program and to begin launch operations there.
    Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Jolly boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jolly%20boat. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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