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Recent Examples of merchant ship
One became a merchant ship navigator in 1918.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Over the course of its full deployment from September 2024 through May 2025, the carrier strike group had a friendly fire incident in December — when a Navy destroyer launched missiles at two F-18s — a collision with a merchant ship in February and lost two F-18s, one in April and another in May.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 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
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Over the course of its full deployment from September 2024 through May 2025, the carrier strike group had a friendly fire incident in December — when a Navy destroyer launched missiles at two F-18s — a collision with a merchant ship in February and lost two F-18s, one in April and another in May.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchant ship
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Project leaders liken the task to building a ship inside a glass bottle—except the neck of the bottle is a mile long, and the ship is a one-tenth-scale aircraft carrier.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
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France’s only aircraft carrier headed toward the Arabian Gulf, oil fell below $100 a barrel, and stocks rose on optimism that US-Iran talks could lead to a durable peace.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
7 May 2026
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Giuliani was elected New York’s mayor in 1993 after serving as one of the nation’s highest-profile prosecutors, taking on mobsters and crooked Wall Street traders.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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GameStop shot to fame five years ago during the meme-stock craze, when an army of retail investors piled into the stock, sending its value soaring, in an attempt to squeeze professional traders who were betting that the company’s share price would fall.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
4 May 2026
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For those escaping to Philadelphia from regions nearer to Pennsylvania, clandestine travel by small boat or by road was more likely than stowing away on a steamship.—
Jeremy Mennis,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
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Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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The fact that a humpback whale had been dredged out for days by volunteers, corralled into a barge and released into the North Sea demonstrated a collective good will toward nature that can seem all too rare.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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The reusable first-stage booster was designed to land on a nearby barge.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 May 2026
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Steam Wrinkles Out of Upholstery and Curtains When filled with water and set to a steam setting, an iron can easily double as a steamer.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
23 Apr. 2026
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There the steamer has remained and become a home for marine life.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2026
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Based on its website, the company provides services in ramp handling and commercial cleaning, as well as assistance with passengers, transport and security.—
Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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The company has also had to suspend some of its transport services and find alternate routes either to safe harbors or over land.—
Mae Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,300-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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On May 6, a Navy jet fired several rounds from its 20mm cannon to disable the rudder of a tanker.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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China's Foreign Ministry expressed concern, saying the tanker was registered in the Marshall Islands with Chinese crew on board.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 May 2026
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchant%20ship. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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