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
The first shots The lethal strike on a speedboat allegedly tied to the cartel —though highly controversial— was a clear message to Maduro’s inner circle, De La Cruz said.
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
The president's post was accompanied by video clips showing a speedboat traveling through the ocean, with one of the videos appearing to be infrared, before it was hit and destroyed by a large explosion.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Scale-ups are speedboats, not cruise ships.
—Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
His later works, which took cars and speedboats as their themes, were similarly handmade, their forms at once suggesting nostalgia and escape velocity.
—News Desk, Artforum, 11 Sep. 2025
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
The president's post was accompanied by video clips showing a speedboat traveling through the ocean, with one of the videos appearing to be infrared, before it was hit and destroyed by a large explosion.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Scale-ups are speedboats, not cruise ships.
—Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
His later works, which took cars and speedboats as their themes, were similarly handmade, their forms at once suggesting nostalgia and escape velocity.
—News Desk, Artforum, 11 Sep. 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
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To put that into perspective, that is bigger than current destroyers and closer to cruiser size.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Oct. 2025
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Founder Dario Messina says the NY24 Deluxe, a compact dayboat with elegant curves, and the NY40 flagship, a more powerful midrange cruiser, share a design language rooted in Italian tradition but rendered with a minimalist hand.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
26 Oct. 2025
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Interested parties will also have a chance to buy an Aero Hunton XRS37 powerboat.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Powering over the horizon on my beloved center console powerboat and not wearing a shirt for long periods of time!—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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