as in freighter
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Recent Examples of merchantman
These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
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Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchantman
Noun
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The companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.—
Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2023
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The announcement comes as tensions surge across the Middle East, with the U.S. deploying more warships and aircraft in response to Iranian threats, escalating its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, and as Israel intensifies its strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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The gap between conventional warships and autonomous ones keeps getting blurred as the latter grow in size and capabilities.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2025
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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Portable steamers and irons are bulky and require an outlet, time, and patience.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Apr. 2025
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This professional garment steamer with foot pedal power control from Macy's is powerful and is ready to steam fast.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, Harney ordered all the traders in the area into the fort.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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His office also went after insider traders, including the recent prosecution of a couple of Gulliver Preparatory School graduates enmeshed in a MasTec acquisition deal.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
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The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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On the red carpet, there were many classic diamond colliers and bibs, from Mikey Madison’s Tiffany & Co.—
Shannon Adducci,
Robb Report,
3 Mar. 2025
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Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Feb. 2024
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“Merchantman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchantman. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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