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steamship

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as in steamer

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Recent Examples of steamship 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 On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats. — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026 Clemens served as a steamship pilot for several years, navigating boats along 1,200 twisting, meandering miles. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for steamship

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In between dry cleaner drop-offs, use a steamer to de-wrinkle your suit.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
Leave your travel steamer at home, and check out more of the most popular wrinkle-resistant tops from Amazon’s fashion department.

— Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of steamer

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These include the Type 91 surface-to-air missile barge, Type 92 underwater sensing vessel, Type 93 autonomous submarine, and Type 94 surface sensing vessel, all of which form part of the UK’s broader Hybrid Navy concept.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
The dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge.

— Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026

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Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026
Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026

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The warship, which marked its 51st year in service in early May, had departed from the Pacific Northwest on March 7, 2026, and was expected to arrive earlier this spring to be decommissioned in advance of its recycling.

— Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
And a Navy warship, the USS Fort Lauderdale, is docked on the coast.

— Joshua Partlow, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026

Definition of warship

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Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.

— Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 July 2026

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