as in ship
a large craft for travel by water
for a few days at least, the Titanic was the largest and grandest keel afloat
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Recent Examples of keel
Veerender Jubbal, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
After Otto keels dead on their first evening together, both families discover something shocking: Neither has any money, and each had married the other hoping to salvage their fortunes.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Pewaukee can keel it out and will do so.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
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Noun
The decision helped to mend the broken community, putting all players on a more even keel, and accelerated the adoption of the latest entry.
—Veerender Jubbal, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
After Otto keels dead on their first evening together, both families discover something shocking: Neither has any money, and each had married the other hoping to salvage their fortunes.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
Otherwise healthy workers keel over at their desks after a long stretch of overtime or after consummating a high-pressure deal, usually from a stroke or heart attack.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Pewaukee can keel it out and will do so.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keel
Noun
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An emergency on their ship sends them scrambling, and when their crewmate (Finn Cole) gets trapped on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen in his tank, the two divers have to get creative – and fast – to save him.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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The ship's staff was highly trained and experienced.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The game had barely started when Bentaleb abruptly stopped running, sat down and then collapsed on the ground.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Tommy walks through the burning town and finds Maria, collapsing into her on Main Street, which is littered with dead, human and infected both.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Lauren Vuong fled Vietnam by boat and came to the United States at age 8 with her family.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Rescuers used two fire boats, a helicopter and personal watercraft to look for the boy, as well as personnel on the beach, Guzman said.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Malone entered his postgame news conference minutes later, crumpled up a copy of the box score and discarded it in the nearest trash can.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
11 Apr. 2025
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Images of the scene showed the bright yellow Penske truck flipped on its side and lodged between a pole and a storefront, its cab crumpled.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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The crew aboard a converted Navy vessel known as the Okeanos Explorer have since April 8 been mapping and exploring unexplored deepwater regions of Hawaii.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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But the vessel was still holding on to a few secrets.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Sea turtles, for example, haul themselves out onto beaches during breeding season to dig nests and plop dozens of eggs into the sandy divots before returning to the waves.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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GoPro plopped the same sensor from the Hero12 into the Hero13, so there’s no bump in resolution or low-light video quality.—
Jakob Schiller,
Outside Online,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Marte, hitting at the top of the order in place of Francisco Lindor, was plunked by Quantrill to put two on with none out.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2025
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On his 88th pitch of the day, Hicks plunked Justin Turner and his afternoon was over.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
11 July 2024
Verb
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The only ranking where the track slips is the Official Singles Sales chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Tokyo's Nikkei 225 jumped 1.9%, while stocks in Shanghai slipped 0.1%.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Keel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keel. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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