seiner

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Recent Examples of seiner Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up. San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023 Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist. David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023 After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine. Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022 The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings. Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019 Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish. Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seiner
Noun
  • After the crew’s last letters were sent home from the coast of Greenland, Franklin’s two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, were last sighted by whalers off Baffin Island.
    Cassidy Randall, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Near the Bering Strait, the crew spotted the Brunswick, incapacitated after striking ice and surrounded by other whalers preparing to buy off its goods.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The transformation from investment banker to mental health advocate wasn't exactly a joyful moment for Miller.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But instead of overwrought banker’s pinstripes, Armani did it his way, delivering formality in a softer and more feminine manner.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 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
  • The ferry pulled back into the Manhattan station.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Arriving In Tromsø By Cruise Ship Some ships dock at Prostneset, right in the heart of the city beside the coastal ferry terminal.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some shrimpers readily acknowledged the broad uncertainty around Mr. Trump’s tariffs and their impact.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In 2009, the original Magellano 74 pioneered the crossover between adventure and sophistication in what was a very traditional trawler market.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film is described as a claustrophobic drama set on a fishing trawler in the North Atlantic.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.
    Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
    Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018

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“Seiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seiner. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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