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merchant ship

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Definition of merchant ship

as in motor ship

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Recent Examples of merchant ship But how those military assets figure into getting merchant ships moving through the strait again is not defined. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 May 2026 Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo. — Nbc News, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026 As far back as 1975, when President Gerald Ford rescued the SS Mayaguez, the merchant ship captured by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, presidents have acknowledged the law and dutifully reported their military actions to Congress. — Sarah Burns, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026 Under the cover of night on July 30, 1949, the Amethyst quenched all its lights on board and shadowed a passing Chinese merchant ship, the Kiangling Liberation, following it through the tricky shoals of the river. — Anne Ewbank, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for merchant ship

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In an intriguing footnote, Akbar also mentions the pending arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier that recently became an alarming headline story.

— Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
The production cost of one advanced aircraft carrier is $10-13 billion, and the annual cost of deploying a ground division to the Middle East is $1 billion.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026

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This border crossing was once a bustling nexus for tourists and traders moving between China and Nepal.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
The stronger-than-expected numbers have fed funds futures traders betting on a Federal Reserve rate hike this month, as the data points to a resilient labor market alongside inflation still above the Fed’s 2% target.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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Most reached the region by steamship to Skagway or nearby Dyea, Alaska, before attempting to cross the Coast Mountains via the White Pass or Chilkoot trails.

— Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
The ferry also stops on Ellis Island, part of the national park, and is famous for processing more than 12 million immigrant steamship passengers through its federal immigration station from 1892 to 1954.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2026

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Jackson’s availability was curbed by red cards at Chelsea — in Bruges, a barge and shirt pull with defender Han-Beom Lee suggested those flickers of fury and confrontation still burn.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Within just nine months of launch, Bluecore Energy has rapidly accelerated its path toward floating nuclear power by securing a port terminal, receiving its first barge, and starting construction on a test reactor.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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Almost a year in the planning, the aircraft will be supported by three refueling planes, two transport aircraft and around 300 personnel overseen from a headquarters near Lyon in eastern France.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged above $100 this week, and diesel — heavily used in transport and farming — hit a record, potentially stoking inflation.

— Joseph Krauss, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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Emirates SkyCargo in July flew the first commercial Boeing 777-300 passenger-to-freighter conversion, carrying more than 100 tons from Hong Kong to Dubai, with Israel Aerospace Industries contracted for at least three more conversions.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
The ship is similar in size and capacity to the Sanchi, an Iranian ship that collided with a freighter off China in 2018 in the world’s worst oil tanker disaster in decades.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026

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