as in ships
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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Noun
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Unlike other Princess ships, the salon, gym and cycling studio are separate, on deck 19.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026 -
Smaller ships can access ports that larger ships cannot.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
Verb
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When borrowing dries up, the scheme collapses.—
Les Rubin,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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In his poems, letters lose limbs, words are mined, and grammar collapses under shelling.—
Alex Averbuch,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Many boats leaving Libya are overcrowded and barely seaworthy.—
LEFTERIS PITARAKIS,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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The aircraft's sensors scan for boats along the 350-kilometer (220-mile) stretch of sea between Libya and the Greek island of Crete and can detect activity hidden below deck.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
Verb
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My now-husband and I were newly a couple and still working out the kinks and crumples in an evolving relationship.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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The man crumples to the ground while the officer turns to walk away as the other officers stand by.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In development for seven years, Sun Princess is the line’s seventeenth and biggest ship, the first in its new Sphere class of vessels.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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In some of his finest works, like Job Mocked by His Wife and The Newborn Child, the figures in their heavy clothes are reduced to flat shapes of ocher or brown, not unlike the way, three centuries later, Giorgio Morandi would commute vessels to a pure geometry stripped of all but color and feeling.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Verb
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First, a knight’s urgent secretion plops to the ground behind a tree that offers far too little.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2026
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The individual then plops the turtle back down, taps its shell a few times, and walks away.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Skywatchers in New York will witness the very beginning of the blood moon phase in the half hour before the lunar disk slips below the horizon opposite the glow of the rising sun on March.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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His score slips back and forth between hymnlike simplicity and operatic virtuosity.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The movie plunks us down at Mar-a-Lago, where Melania struts out the door and into the back of an SUV, which will take her to the red-white-and-blue private plane painted with the word TRUMP that’s waiting for her at the airport.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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Each January, Stoever makes a maximum contribution to a Roth IRA and plunks another chunk of cash in a solo 401(k).—
Ryan Ermey
Lauren Shamo,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Keels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keels. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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