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steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026 In 1868, at the age of 29, John Muir arrived in San Francisco via steamship with definitive plans to wander and revel in the natural wonders of California—he’d heard of the Golden State’s geographic riches and wanted to see them for himself. — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026 Before the first transatlantic telegraph cable, messages traveled across the ocean by steamship and took about two weeks each way. — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026 The original Dow index from 1884 had 11 stocks in it, and nine of them were railroads (the other two were a steamship company and Western Union). — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for steamship

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These came in a tiny bag folded very tightly—typically, that means breaking out the steamer or tossing them in the dryer with an ice cube.

— Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 31 July 2026
In-room requests (like asking for a steamer, for instance) are handled swiftly via WhatsApp.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026

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In other parts of the route, the road drops close enough to the river so that drivers can watch barge traffic on the Mississippi.

— Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026
Once the plant reaches the end of its operational lifespan, tugboats will tow the entire barge to a specialized shipyard for decommissioning.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

Definition of barge

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The Boeing 737 entered service in 1999 as a passenger aircraft before it was converted into a freighter in 2011.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
The 737-400 was first delivered as a passenger plane to Russia’s Aeroflot in 1999 and was converted to a freighter in 2012, according to Flightradar24.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of freighter

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The warship is designed to carry 64 strike-length Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells capable of firing a broad range of air defense, ballistic missile defense, and land-attack missiles.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
The warship and escorts are now at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, where the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is being offloaded.

— Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of warship

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Six vessels moved into the Persian Gulf — five cargo ships and one tanker — while one cargo ship exited into the Gulf of Oman.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, a tanker reported hearing two explosions off the coast of Oman while transiting Hormuz, according to a Wednesday incident report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

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