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shipyard

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as in marina

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Recent Examples of shipyard The first model from GX Superyachts, a green-tech shipyard, was launched this week in Turkey. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2026 The group also includes the head of human resources for Electric Boat, which has in recent years been hiring thousands of workers in southeastern Connecticut as the shipyard builds the latest class of submarines. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026 Built in 1961 to house shipyard workers after World War II, many of whom were African American, Golden Gate Village received a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 According to Popovic, the Slovenian was made in 1913 in a shipyard in Budapest, Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shipyard

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Pictures show the enormous white superyacht docked in the marina, towering over its surroundings.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Plenty of people who spent decades building a restaurant, a marina operation, or a trade business now own their homes outright or close to it, yet show little income on paper.

— Karen Koehler, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026

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When the 12-hour dockyard shifts were reduced to 10-hour, workers felt their already precarious standards of living threatened.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 24 Aug. 2026
The reason for its enduring success lies in the geography of English Harbour, where the dockyard was built.

— Duncan Madden, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Definition of dockyard

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Blue Harvest has charged captains and crew on its vessels for maintenance, electronics and wharfage fees, among other expenses.

— Will Sennott, ProPublica, 22 July 2022
Stimpson said last year that cruising, before the pandemic halted the industry, attracted around $6 million in annual gross revenues from wharfage and parking alone.

— al, al, 25 Feb. 2022

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