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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
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Under the cover of night on July 30, 1949, the Amethyst quenched all its lights on board and shadowed a passing Chinese merchant ship, the Kiangling Liberation, following it through the tricky shoals of the river.—
Anne Ewbank,
Popular Science,
18 Feb. 2026
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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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In the South, pine straw is about as common as wood mulches like shredded hardwood mulch, wood chips, and pine bark nuggets.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026
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Potting mix typically contains a combination of peat moss or coconut coir to hold moisture, perlite for drainage, and smaller amounts of components like sphagnum moss, bark, vermiculite, compost, and minerals.—
Alexandra Jones,
The Spruce,
26 Feb. 2026
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Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s run of sailing yachts continued until 1990, when his son, Benjamin, turned his attention to even more-competitive multihulls and oversaw the rise of the Gitana Team.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2026
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Croatia is a premier European destination for yacht party tourism, with hubs in Split, Dubrovnik and Makarska.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bob Dylan, too, passed through, once working with a local shipbuilder on a custom wooden schooner called Water Pearl, delighted that the unbothered locals did not recognize him.—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
14 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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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
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Set the scene Nearly all guests arrive the most comfortable way, connecting through San Juan on a Tradewind Aviation prop plane to Tortola's Beef Island, a 90-minute ride low enough to count the sailboats moored off Virgin Gorda.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Save-the-dates inspired by lakeshores, sailboats, sunsets, and beach grass are especially popular for summer weddings.—
Craig Lebrau,
Freep.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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While the Ford — the largest aircraft carrier in the world — appears to have pulled ahead of its strike group after departing from the Caribbean last week, the full Lincoln strike group has been in the Middle East for weeks.—
Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
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One aircraft carrier group is already in the region and another is on the way.—
Aamer Madhani,
Chicago Tribune,
19 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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“Tall ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tall%20ship. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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