Thesaurus results for PULLER

puller

noun

Definition of puller

as in sailor

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Recent Examples of puller 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 Georgia runs a quarterback sweep toward Freeling — who is the lead puller on the play. — Joseph Person, New York Times, 26 May 2026 The codefendant, Moudy, who is not the trigger puller, got a 45-year sentence. — Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 19 May 2026 In fact, the Drive doesn't even include the tent stake puller at the center of the model family name. — New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2026

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Noun

The military said Chinese coast guard personnel aboard a motorboat repeatedly struck the sailor on the head with a wooden baton, injuring him and damaging his smaller vessel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
The ship is named for William Pinckney, a Navy Cross recipient who rescued a fellow sailor aboard USS Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz in World War II.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of sailor

Noun

Reportedly, the artificial intelligence serves as both the observational eyes and the active navigator throughout the procedure by establishing a continuous feedback loop between real-time ultrasound image processing and physical surgical control.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
The shelter will be open only to Elk Grove residents or people with deep ties to the city, verified through a vetting process, who receive referrals from the city’s homeless services navigators or police officers.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of navigator

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What Michael didn’t say was that, sometime after Star’s hospital visit, the kids’ nose swabs had come back negative for measles.

— Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Done with a cheek swab, blood draw or saliva sample, this testing mainly looks at liver enzymes that affect how the body metabolizes medicines.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of swab

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

Sea salt is generally less processed and can contain trace amounts of minerals such as potassium, iron, calcium and magnesium, according to Harvard Health.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of salt

Noun

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
Salge also notes no big issues with tar spot or fungus – things which can damage maple leaves.

— Eric Fisher, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of tar

Noun

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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