as in motorboat
a boat equipped with a motor
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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Recent Examples of speedboat
Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
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Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
First, Washington should expand its target list to include drug-trafficking speedboats in ports in addition to those on the high seas, because the threat must be brought home to the Venezuelan military.
—Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
According to prosecutors, Gogic and his co-conspirators worked with the ships' crew members to smuggle cocaine in shipping containers, hoisting loads of the drug from speedboats that approached the cargo vessels along their route, including near ports in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
—CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Select runabouts and speedboats, between 24 and 42 feet, have emerged as boating’s latest crown jewels.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2025
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Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
First, Washington should expand its target list to include drug-trafficking speedboats in ports in addition to those on the high seas, because the threat must be brought home to the Venezuelan military.
—Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
According to prosecutors, Gogic and his co-conspirators worked with the ships' crew members to smuggle cocaine in shipping containers, hoisting loads of the drug from speedboats that approached the cargo vessels along their route, including near ports in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
—CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Select runabouts and speedboats, between 24 and 42 feet, have emerged as boating’s latest crown jewels.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speedboat
Noun
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The complaint accused Coconut Grove Sailing Club and three counselors, including the one who operated the motorboat, of various counts of negligence.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Leith returned me to shore in a motorboat.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the footage, Officer Hunter Weaver is seen stepping out of his cruiser and twice ordering a man, later identified as Frank Mejia Aguilar, to show his hands, once using an expletive.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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Deputies Shayne Leggett and Andrew Daymut were on the scene attempting to corral the determined emu using catch poles, while dispatchers monitored the unfolding situation via live feeds from the deputies’ cruiser cameras and body cameras.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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The two boats, along with a 31-foot Fountain powerboat also linked to the smuggling operation, will be forfeited to the federal government, the department said.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
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In May, the longest-running powerboat race in America, the Cambridge Classic, takes center stage, while September brings thousands of competitors out for Ironman Maryland, one of the only Ironman competitions held on the East Coast.—
Katie Riley,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Nov. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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