Thesaurus results for MERCHANT SHIP

merchant ship

noun

as in motor ship

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Recent Examples of merchant ship Undersea sabotage was the first to be activated: starting in 2023, a growing number of incidents involving merchant ships cutting or damaging undersea power and communications cables and gas pipelines in the North and Baltic Seas were linked to Russia. —

Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2025 A number of ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, with 2,000-year-old Roman terracotta jars found in the remains of a ship found off the coast of Italy in 2023, a Greek merchant ship discovered in 2018 off the Bulgarian coast and dozens more. —

Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025 Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025 Or further, the many more miles of cordage needed by non-whaling merchant ships and naval vessels. —

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Also Friday, the massive American aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, arrived off Israel’s coast.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who also visited the Charles de Gaulle, emphasized that the security of the aircraft carrier wasn’t threatened.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026