pinnace

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Recent Examples of pinnace While the climactic smackdown pits Wonder Woman vs. full feral Cheetah, an earlier fight at the White House is the real pinnace of their rivalry, presenting both Gadot and Wiig as physical powerhouses. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinnace
Noun
  • Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
  • The shallop, by contrast, was meant for shallow water where larger ships couldn’t venture.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
Noun
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Researchers discovered a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 140 years ago, ending decades of searches for the elusive ghost ship.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • On June 28, the team discovered the ship, a 144-foot-long schooner – a type of sailing vessel with two or more masts – that sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1886.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Several other countries have contributed anti-drone assets, and an air defense frigate operated by NATO's Maritime Command (MARCOM) arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday as part of the alliance's Baltic Sentry initiative.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Back on the Danish frigate, in the Nuuk Fjord, flanked by Greenland’s bleak mountains of sheer black rock, the boom of practicing naval artillery guns reverberates into the Arctic abyss, as fighter jets scream overhead.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
    Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout it there are forts, full-size wooden galleons and signs hung on what appear to be Persian rugs.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Contemporary sources suggested that cannon fire struck a stash of gunpowder aboard the San José, triggering a massive explosion that caused the ship to sink, but more recent research points to the galleon splitting open.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • In nearby Bonavista village, the Matthew Legacy is a full-sized replica of the caravel that Cabot sailed across the Atlantic on the fateful voyage.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Wreck 5 was built using a method known as caravel planking, where planks are placed end to end without overlapping, archaeologist and project leader Håkan Altrock said in the release.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Pinnace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinnace. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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