motor ship

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Noun
  • By the way, the dragon turned out to be a small Nile crocodile, which may have escaped from a merchant ship.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 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
Noun
  • Currently, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying carrier group are in the Caribbean.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • Last summer, China sent both the Liaoning and another aircraft carrier deeper into the western Pacific while Chinese military aircraft repeatedly approached Japanese planes, prompting Tokyo to warn about collision risks.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • During the April mission, the rocket’s first stage booster landed successfully on a seafaring barge, but the upper portion, or second stage, of the rocket didn’t manage to deliver its payload — AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite — to a safe orbit.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
  • Once the new location is open, Hollywood Casino’s parent company Penn Entertainment has an agreement with the city of Aurora to demolish the riverboat location in downtown, including the barge, building and walkway over the Fox River, then turn the land over to the city of Aurora.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • Pitching coach Justin Willard helped him with some adjustments on his sweeper, and the veteran has reintroduced his cutter.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026
  • On the first pitch of his assignment, Lewis ripped a 91 mph cutter from Omaha’s Mitch Spence for a home run.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • During this time, circus families blossomed all over Mexico, aided by the appearance of the steamship and railway systems, as the circus historian Julio Revolledo Cárdenas would detail in a 2018 article for the Fédération Mondiale du Cirque.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • At the outset of the war, gasoline prices surged in response to Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime trading route that facilitates the transport of about one-fifth of global crude supply.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • According to guidelines issued by the Department of Justice, shackles may be used at federal facilities only to restrain violent inmates or prevent the escape of inmates during court appearances and transport.
    Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • The crude oil tanker Idemitsu Maru sails through Ise Bay near Chita City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, May 25, 2026, after becoming the first crude tanker bound for Japan to transit the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war.
    Mark Osborne, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The tanker went off the right shoulder of the highway and rolled onto its side, state patrol officials said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • The second worst feeling is realizing your hotel doesn’t have a steamer or iron available.
    Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 30 May 2026
  • Fong's late grandfather was one of eight Chinese passengers who boarded the luxury steamer to cross the Atlantic, of which only six survived, CBS, the BBC and The Chicago Tribune reported.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
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“Motor ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor%20ship. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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