jolly boat

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Noun
  • Guess where most cord cutters and cord nevers are flocking instead for their broadcast and cable fix?
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Two weeks ago, Ramírez clobbered a cutter from Troy Melton for a go-ahead home run to complete a sweep in Detroit.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Being stranded at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger doesn’t necessarily sit at the top of most people’s list.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
  • For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dave’s menu is relatively simple, with oversized chicken tenders and sliders as go-to orders.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Pesto pasta features tender noodles in a satiny basil pesto sauce.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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
  • Since its launch, the Zeekr 001 has remained the brand’s flagship model and primary sales driver, setting the standard for performance, technology, and innovation within Zeekr’s lineup.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Pioneering sneaker boutique Undefeated is following up the launch of one of 2025’s biggest collaborations, the return of its 2005 Air Jordan 4, with a brand new project that references another one of its classic releases.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then, during World War II, at the age of 8, Anderson learned to knit from her mother and grandmother, who belonged to a knitting auxiliary, creating sweaters, vests, bed socks and more.
    Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Baraka was a central figure of the Black Arts Literary Movement — the cultural auxiliary to the 1960s Black Power movement, according to NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 9 May 2025
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
  • Anemoi revealed that the sails were transported by barge and lifted directly onto the deck.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina, another company is marketing a 31-room floating hotel — resembling a converted barge — with stays from $270 a night.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Jolly boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jolly%20boat. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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