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Senator Questions Trump Admin’s Vessel Seizure The vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia has compared the seizure of the supertanker with the Trump administration’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean allegedly linked to the drug trade.
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
The navigable shipping lanes for massive supertankers are only about two miles wide in each direction, requiring vessels to pass through both Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
At least two massive supertankers that had entered the strait were reported to have made U-turns.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 22 June 2025
The American supertanker doesn’t turn on a dime, and the results of this year’s 3D chess will begin to resolve this summer and autumn.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
The navigable shipping lanes for massive supertankers are only about two miles wide in each direction, requiring vessels to pass through both Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
At least two massive supertankers that had entered the strait were reported to have made U-turns.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 22 June 2025
The American supertanker doesn’t turn on a dime, and the results of this year’s 3D chess will begin to resolve this summer and autumn.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supertanker
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Videos and photos posted online appeared to show the back of the tanker engulfed in flames and smoke and sinking.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Mar. 2026
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That’s after tanker owners, oil majors and trading houses suspended shipments via the strait on Saturday as a precautionary move.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
1 Mar. 2026
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It's then sent by barge to West Elizabeth.—
Mamie Bah,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring.—
Milena Malaver,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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Such reboosts have historically been done by Russia's Progress freighter.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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It was converted to a bulk freighter in 1869.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tom Townsend, a former Putnam County school superintendent, said his family operated steamship tours showcasing the Ocklawaha before construction of the dam.—
David Bauerlein,
Florida Times-Union,
9 Feb. 2026
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The warship is about 24 feet longer than the white-and-blue dry dock, which was built in Turkey and carried to Southern California last year aboard a heavy-lift ship.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Things were happier when Andrew visited our city in May 1985, a helicopter pilot on a British warship.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Feb. 2026
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The rooms are on the cozier side but thoughtfully designed, stylish, and comfortable, with details that make a difference, including a steamer that quickly became one of my favorite in-room amenities.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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Hold the steamer a few inches from the fabric.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
19 Feb. 2026
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Supertanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supertanker. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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