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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 -
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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Meanwhile, the keel for the Leningrad vessel had been laid down at the shipyard in January 2024.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
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Additionally, there are semirigid airships, which are similar to blimps and sometimes called blimps but have a structural metal keel.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 May 2026
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Others are banned entirely, including strike anywhere matches, torch lighters, and flammable aerosols like spray paint.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Aug. 2025
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Guns, knives, lighters and cop cars are seen during a series of intense fast cuts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with the captain’s body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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Later in the inning, Montgomery jumped on a 2-0 cutter and kept the ball fair down the right-field line.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2026
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The unrestricted free-agent tender established a roughly $15 million salary for 2026, but the team can — and should — offer him significantly more given his value and the lack of a viable alternative.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Learning to play a new game with a doting mother checking in gave Hali a sense of tender, homey comfort.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
11 May 2026
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Getting here is only possible by water taxi from Homer or floatplane from Anchorage.—
Kissa Castaneda,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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For a more scenic arrival, take a water taxi straight across the harbor to the docks in the Seaport, North End, or downtown.—
Cameron Sperance,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
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The 14 surviving crew members evacuated on a lifeboat, and were later picked up by the Salvamar Draco, a Spanish rescue boat.—
Pau Mosquera,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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This population had been essentially isolated there since 2013, when biologists removed some eggs to create the lifeboat population, although a small number of additional eggs from the wild have been collected over the years to try to maintain the genetic connection.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
24 July 2025
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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Narrow boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrow%20boat. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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