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Recent Examples of tall ship
Windjammers are traditional tall ships powered by harnessing the force of the wind.
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Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
International fleets of tall ships and Navy vessels will dock in New Orleans; Norfolk, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; New York City and New Jersey; and Boston — bringing parades, tours, fireworks and much more.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The anachronistic, startling tall ship and black mast, the word Dash clearly visible upon her prow, supposedly took the blasts and disappeared again.
—Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
The tall ship is used to educate more than 5,000 school children a year on maritime history and pirate life.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
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Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
International fleets of tall ships and Navy vessels will dock in New Orleans; Norfolk, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; New York City and New Jersey; and Boston — bringing parades, tours, fireworks and much more.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The anachronistic, startling tall ship and black mast, the word Dash clearly visible upon her prow, supposedly took the blasts and disappeared again.
—Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
The tall ship is used to educate more than 5,000 school children a year on maritime history and pirate life.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tall ship
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By the way, the dragon turned out to be a small Nile crocodile, which may have escaped from a merchant ship.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the late 1960s and early ’70s, for example, Nilsson completed a series of silver ink drawings on black paper that nod to Indigenous Australian bark paintings.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Aim for a thickness of 2 to 3 inches when applying organic matter such as wood chips, bark, or straw.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
31 May 2026
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The stresses of the shore fall away in the salt air, and the pressures of daily life ease into the wake as the yacht leaves land behind.—
Rachel Ingram,
Robb Report,
31 May 2026
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Other looks in Hadid's yacht wardrobe included a steel blue one-piece suit by Miyake Design Studio, a black one-piece swimsuit with a large back cutout and blue trim, and matching Some Bodee bloomers and a ruffled crop top in white.—
Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
30 May 2026
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The sails will be exhibited from May 28 through July 30 on The North Wind schooner throughout the festival.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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In 1965, Cochran's boat, a large schooner called the Rogue, was found drifting off the coast of Guatemala.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 May 2026
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Word around baseball is all the losing has turned the Mets clubhouse, which has already been fractured these past couple years, into a joyless brig.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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Crews uncovered the marble slab while excavating the site of the Mentor, a brig owned by Thomas Bruce, the British soldier and diplomat known as Lord Elgin, according to Greece's Ministry of Culture and BBC News, a CBS News partner.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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The sailboat the couple was using in their travels around the Bahamas was seized by the Coast Guard last month.—
Cristian Benavides,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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The couple was headed back to their sailboat Soulmate, their full-time home in retirement, when Lynette fell overboard, Brian claims.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Currently, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying carrier group are in the Caribbean.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2026
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Last summer, China sent both the Liaoning and another aircraft carrier deeper into the western Pacific while Chinese military aircraft repeatedly approached Japanese planes, prompting Tokyo to warn about collision risks.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 May 2026
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Jan. 2026
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Dec. 2024
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