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Recent Examples of moorage
Just 20 minutes from downtown Seattle, the home’s proximity to the Mercer Island Beach Club makes lake access and boat moorage convenient.
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Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2025
The conservancy has for more than a decade tried unsuccessfully to find a permanent moorage for the SS United States as a floating hotel, museum, entertainment complex, or all of the above.
—Matthew Korfhage, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Materials sent by ship were received at the company’s moorage along the Willamette River.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
The study will help determine whether floating docks are viable for transient moorage and for staging areas for local individuals or charter boats loading and unloading gear and passengers, according to officials.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2021
Typically $25 per passenger vehicle, and there may be additional slip and moorage fees.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 22 May 2019
Officers were called to the moorage at Chandler’s Cove around 4:30 a.m., where the theft had been reported, according to the Seattle Police Department.
—Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2025
The conservancy has for more than a decade tried unsuccessfully to find a permanent moorage for the SS United States as a floating hotel, museum, entertainment complex, or all of the above.
—Matthew Korfhage, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Materials sent by ship were received at the company’s moorage along the Willamette River.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
The study will help determine whether floating docks are viable for transient moorage and for staging areas for local individuals or charter boats loading and unloading gear and passengers, according to officials.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2021
Typically $25 per passenger vehicle, and there may be additional slip and moorage fees.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 22 May 2019
Officers were called to the moorage at Chandler’s Cove around 4:30 a.m., where the theft had been reported, according to the Seattle Police Department.
—Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moorage
Noun
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There’s more charm along the waterfront, where traditional fishing boats and recreational vessels are lined up along the marina.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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Farkas had a longtime personal and business relationship with Epstein, including co-owning a marina with him in the Caribbean.—
Julie Carr Smyth,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The location features more than 300,000 storage locations and 60 dock doors.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Two loading docks that previously housed trash dumpsters for the older building have been reclaimed as a visualization lab and a robotics lab.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Setting Point On the island's southern shore, Setting Point is the location of Anegada's only mooring.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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As for the people that live on boats, CBS News Miami was told many of them went to a mooring field.—
Steve Maugeri
March 2,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As for Mitan, the yacht will now spend seven to eight months cruising south towards Mexico, calling at multiple anchorages along the way.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Dannebroge anchored at the center of Denmark’s defensive line in the shallow anchorage outside Copenhagen.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The astronauts focused some of their observations on Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the moon’s near and far sides.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The project is still in its early stages, so most of the action is with the Humboldt Bay Harbor District, which must transform its historic logging port before any work begins out on the ocean.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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The shipman embarked on Sunday for an over 48-hour journey that would take him from the Iraqi port where his vessel was anchored to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, before finally meeting his wife and parents in his hometown of Mumbai.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For policymakers, the way the public responded to the harbor’s transformation was a revelation.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Portuguese at first tried to retain the citadel, but when that position proved indefensible, Albuquerque withdrew to the fleet at Goa harbor, though not before destroying military stores and executing a number of high-ranking Muslims in his custody.—
Sanat Pai RaikarAll,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Moorage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moorage. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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