Thesaurus results for PULLER

puller

noun

Definition of puller

as in sailor

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Recent Examples of puller Reich was taking advantage of Parham’s athleticism by using him as a puller. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 For one thing, cutting PCB manufacturing costs by making only half of the board hybrid (rather than implementing hybrid-switch capability for every key) and including storage for the keycap and key-switch puller are big innovations. — Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2026 The thermoplastic rubber cuff puller makes for swift and even positioning. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 So grotesque that even the DP and the focus puller were disturbed. — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026 Musk creation — cinema’s premier curtain-puller on power revealing the man who has amassed so much of it. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 The biggest crowd puller is the famous black cod miso but locals have unofficially crowned the Wagyu beef and foie gras dumplings with spicy ponzu Warsaw’s favorite. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 Picard trained as a lanyard man, the puller of the firing cord. — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026 The codefendant, Moudy, who is not the trigger puller, got a 45-year sentence. — Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 19 May 2026

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Noun

Rousseau lamented that accounts of these societies came mainly from merchants, sailors, soldiers and missionaries.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, an oil portrait of a sailor conjures his time in the Navy.

— Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of sailor

Noun

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished during one of the final stretches of their trip after departing Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Celestial navigators who do this will need to account for the growing difference between UTC and UT1 when determining their precise position on Earth.

— Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of navigator

Noun

Over millions of years, those extra abdominal oars were simplified, repurposed, and eventually erased entirely, leaving behind the streamlined six-legged architects of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
Behind them, Stephen Root is laughing at Kate O’Flynn holding a plastic owl over her face, while Hamish Linklater quietly tests out a pair of old-timey oars.

— Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of oar

Noun

After exploring or relaxing by the pool, head to the freestanding infrared sauna with optional salt halotherapy.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
Under the ban, each homogeneous material that makes up a garment should not have a PFHxA concentration equal to or greater than 25 parts per billion (ppb) for the sum of PFHxA and its salts, while 1,000 ppb for the sum of its related substances.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of salt

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Breaking the dependency loop For people trying to quit vaping, health providers warn that switching to cigarettes reintroduces harmful toxins, tar and carbon monoxide.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The company said Venezuela assigned its new oil fields to exploit in the country’s Orinoco Belt, a region that produces thick, sludgy, tar-like oil that many US Gulf-area refining facilities are tailor made to refine.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of tar

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Hernandez was charged with two counts of misconduct of a ship officer resulting in death under the seaman’s manslaughter statute and released on a $50,000 bond at his presentment in Manhattan federal court two days after the incident.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
Yusiel Lopez Insua, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seaman’s manslaughter, according to court records.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of seaman

Noun

On the inaugural voyage in May 2022, the passenger list included everyone from experienced, 40-cruises-under-their-belts sea dogs to first-timers; birthday-party groups to singletons.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2026
Paternoster Row stands a few blocks away from the Old Bailey courts and Newgate Prison, where so many sea dogs were dragged in chains, tried and sentenced to death.

— Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024

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