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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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Alphabet, increasingly seen by traders as an artificial intelligence winner, briefly topped Nvidia's market cap in extended trading last week.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
11 May 2026
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Retail traders have caught on and piled into the rally at the highest level in a year that same week, per JPMorgan.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 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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Many American farmers rely on fertilizer moving by barge up the Mississippi River ahead of the planting season, limiting their ability to defer purchases.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
14 May 2026
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The 007’s collection bins sit at the center of the barge, just past the conveyor belt that deposits collected trash onto a moving conveyor that moves back and forth to deposit it into the bins.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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After recuperating from burns to his hands and face suffered in the crash, Morris went back to meet his wife in France, and eventually made their way in July back to Homewood, traversing the Atlantic this time by steamer.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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After immigrating to the US, my mother dispensed with some traditional cooking methods, such as using bamboo steamers, and adopted other habits that ran counter to her upbringing.—
John Mok,
Vogue,
6 May 2026
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Four people were killed on May 14 when a medical transport airplane crashed in New Mexico and caused a fire, authorities said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Scientists at the University of Washington discovered highways within the fault that transport migrating fluid, which facilitates further weakening and stress on the fault, according to a paper published earlier this year in Science.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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On Sunday, South Korea said a cargo ship had been struck by unidentified aircraft in Hormuz, while Qatar said a freighter arriving in the country's waters from Abu Dhabi was hit by a drone.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 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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Throughout the large tanker’s journey, its location tracker was off.—
Adina Renner,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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The spokesperson, Asghar Jahangir, did not explicitly refer to the tanker seized on Thursday.—
Melanie Lidman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchant%20ship. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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