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Recent Examples of tall ship
After finishing my bachelor’s degree, more seasonal jobs followed: a stint at a museum, a tall ship on the Hudson River, working as a outdoor educator.
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Kira Cordova, Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2025
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
Relatively few of us go down to the seas anymore, and even fewer of us get to steer a tall ship.
—Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 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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Kira Cordova, Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2025
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
Relatively few of us go down to the seas anymore, and even fewer of us get to steer a tall ship.
—Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 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
Noun
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One became a merchant ship navigator in 1918.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Over the course of its full deployment from September 2024 through May 2025, the carrier strike group had a friendly fire incident in December — when a Navy destroyer launched missiles at two F-18s — a collision with a merchant ship in February and lost two F-18s, one in April and another in May.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Yards are landscaped with rock and cactuses; black bark Mesquite and palo verde trees line yards.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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Jorge Fernández/LightRocket via Getty Images Ibogaine, a hallucinogen made from the root bark of a West African shrub named iboga, is said to have healing properties that have not yet been clinically tested.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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For even more marine life, Amandira, the Aman yacht, can also be chartered from Amanwana for totally bespoke voyages around the Indonesian archipelago from Komodo National Park to the famed Spice Islands and the legendary waters of Raja Ampat.—
Luke Abrahams,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2026
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If the yacht starts to sink, the captain will have to tell everyone on board in person.—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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The bones belonged to Henry Goodsell, the captain of another 19th-century schooner.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Although rescuers successfully saved the entire crew and their captain (who shared the schooner’s name), the vessel wasn’t so lucky.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Since the shootings, Radford has been held in pretrial confinement at a Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Dec. 2025
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Gales tore at the Mary’s sails, and surf crashed across the brig’s deck.—
Adam L. Rovner,
The Conversation,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bill goes into flow chopping onions for dinner, Dave on his sailboat with a good breeze.—
Bill Burnett,
Big Think,
5 Feb. 2026
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Jet Ski, stand-up paddleboard, kayak, and sailboat rentals are also available nearby.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2026
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Iwo, as one historian noted, was like a giant aircraft carrier in just the right place, the Courant previously reported.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2026
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This capability places the ship conceptually between a traditional landing helicopter dock and a light aircraft carrier.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 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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