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Recent Examples of lifeboat
Flight controllers and the crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat to return safely to Earth.
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Anna Commander
hannah Parry
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Aerial footage from a police helicopter showed rescuers diving into the water to pull swimmers to the safety of a lifeboat.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
The crew has less than an hour to evacuate the command module Odyssey into the lunar module Aquarius, using it as a lifeboat.
—ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025
The crew evacuated via lifeboat and transferred to a nearby merchant vessel in tandem with the U.S. Coast Guard.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 June 2025
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Anna Commander
hannah Parry
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Aerial footage from a police helicopter showed rescuers diving into the water to pull swimmers to the safety of a lifeboat.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
The crew has less than an hour to evacuate the command module Odyssey into the lunar module Aquarius, using it as a lifeboat.
—ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025
The crew evacuated via lifeboat and transferred to a nearby merchant vessel in tandem with the U.S. Coast Guard.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeboat
Noun
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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
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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
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Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
27 July 2024
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Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.—
Nicole Briese,
Peoplemag,
24 May 2024
Noun
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Several of the fallen containers struck a smaller clean air barge that was connected to the Mississippi at the time of the accident.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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The production is planning to anchor a 100-foot-barge in Brooklyn Monday for a launch event, in addition to guerilla art installations throughout the week.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Compared to the cutter, which hit the zone 57% of the time, his changeup had a stark 17% zone rate.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sauer has six pitches in his arsenal, mainly relying on a cutter, four-seam fastball, slider and sinker while also mixing in a split finger and occasional curveball.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Each restaurant is equipped with a kids’ menu, but there weren’t any chicken tenders and fries available.—
Essence,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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Firefighting efforts include 10 engines, five water tenders and five hand crews.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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My grandparents love to travel, and the next trip on their calendar is a riverboat cruise from Paris all around northern France.—
Melony Forcier,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Sep. 2025
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Dressed in a black hat, black bell-bottoms, and a jacket with turquoise accents, the Louisiana country singer gave a soulful, twangy reading of the riverboat tale, effortlessly commanding the crowd with just a few shimmies and finger points.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Curved walls, brass accents, and floor-to-ceiling windows frame a generous living space—complete with a dining table that arcs like a ship’s keel and a cocktail-ready bar that glows at night.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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If bookmaking was in theory the keel that kept the ship upright, in practice Bowyer often treated it as another gamble, priding himself on taking bets that his competition wouldn’t touch.—
DAVID AMSDEN,
Rolling Stone,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Lifeboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeboat. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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