as in merchant ship
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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 way of handling the drone threat would be to arm merchant ships and equip them with sensor suites.—
David Szondy
February 15,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2026
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Infection occurs when the tree's bark is damaged by insects, animals, or mechanical wounds, causing the soft wood to deteriorate quickly and make the trunk and branches susceptible to breakage.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
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Small cottony clusters may appear on branches, in cracks in the bark, on roots, or on the undersides of leaves.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2026
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He is also accused of using his salary, which he is capped at a maximum of $400,000 plus certain fees, to buy things such as a 68-foot yacht and a home in Cocoplum.—
Ana Maria Soler,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The company is currently working to power a wide range of vessels that includes VTOLs, race boats and yachts, motorcycles and defense platforms, manufacturing motors at its 86,000-sq ft three-site facility in Milton Keynes, UK.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
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The other Charlottes After the schooner was sold in Pensacola five years later, the next ship — named the North Carolina — was commissioned in 1908, according to the Commander Submarine Force website.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 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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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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While on a very long sailboat race last week, my partner expounded on the Great Filter theory.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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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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Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Spain will send its Christopher Columbus frigate to Cyprus, joining France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and other Greek navy ships, its defense ministry said in a statement.—
Jasmine Green,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 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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