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Recent Examples of schooner
The Dash was a privateer schooner that vanished in 1815 and soon entered local legend as a ghost ship.
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Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
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
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
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Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
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
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schooner
Noun
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Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Dec. 2025
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Jan. 2026
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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
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Their $500 million mega yacht, Koru, was anchored nearby, but the couple reportedly spent most of their time on land.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless-boating charges Monday in a Miami-Dade County court.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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The court, Mediazona said, issued a statement about the sentencing of a Ukrainian navy commander who ordered strikes against the Moskva and another ship, the Admiral Essen frigate.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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Japan has long banned arms exports but has significantly eased restrictions in recent years and is now developing next-generation fighter jets with the UK and Italy while finalizing a deal to sell frigates to Australia.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
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One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.—
Jake Offenhartz,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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This new 164-foot catamaran has blown the Galápagos Islands’ charter offerings wide open.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2026
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Mike Field on his sailing canoe–a sort of hybrid catamaran and canoe.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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