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Recent Examples of tall ship
The 295-foot training vessel — widely referred to as America’s tall ship — is scheduled to tie up at the B Street Pier, 1140 North Harbor Drive, San Diego.
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Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Take to the water aboard the tall ship Alliance II for a scenic sail along the York River with Yorktown Sailing Charters.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Beyond the tall ships, SAIL250 activities will feature local festivals, aviation demonstrations, educational activities and an air show.
—Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
The other tall ships are used as ambassadors by Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Take to the water aboard the tall ship Alliance II for a scenic sail along the York River with Yorktown Sailing Charters.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Beyond the tall ships, SAIL250 activities will feature local festivals, aviation demonstrations, educational activities and an air show.
—Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
The other tall ships are used as ambassadors by Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tall ship
Noun
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Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
28 July 2025
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Aaron Spencer was jolted awake by the frantic barks of his daughter’s chihuahua.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Just be sure to keep mulch lines a few inches away from tree trunks, as mulch placed directly against a tree’s bark increases the risk of pest and rot issues.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
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Design firm Yabu Pushelberg created interiors that feel more like a private yacht than a city hotel.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those sailing aboard The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s 226-suite Luminara yacht can count Singapore as a spectacular port of call.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
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The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
7 Aug. 2025
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The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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It’s sort of based on a sailboat.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
4 Sep. 2025
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This Versailles-meets-surrealism palace hotel is set on the doorstep of the Tuileries Garden, where hotel staff can arrange for carousel rides and loaner toy sailboats.—
Elissa Garay,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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M’Benga makes the difficult decision to send Gamble, or whatever, to the brig.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2025
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Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.—
Jennifer Larino,
NOLA.com,
6 Mar. 2018
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New satellite imagery has captured the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier docked at a port in Oman on the coast of the Arabian Sea.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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