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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It is widely regarded as a navalized successor to earlier Chinese stealth drone programs, optimized for operation from large surface ships equipped with advanced launch systems.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026 -
The bridge would also have a higher clearance to accommodate larger cargo ships, according to the proposal.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The video ends as Chakraborty collapses onto a couch and groans in pain with the officer continuing to yell at him to drop the knife.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps owner Bob Nutting will intercede and order general manager Ben Cherington to sign McCutchen, fearing yet another public relations nightmare if the team’s relationship with a franchise legend collapses.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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The elder Mundy learned to build ice boats as a teenager, growing up in Broad Channel, a small working-class neighborhood where ice boating was a longstanding community hobby.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Due to ice on the river, rescue boats were unable to access the patient.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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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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Vásquez has asserted that the new reservoir would provide capacity for an additional 11 to 13 daily transits, providing more schedule reliability for vessels passing through the trade artery.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Feb. 2026
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Mishpatim builds the vessels to hold it.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 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
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That tune slips several spaces, pushed downward by new releases from Harry Styles, Rob Zombie, and Def Leppard, among others.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Knausgaard slips easily into this way of looking at life.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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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 10 Feb. 2026.
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