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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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Honeysuckle is a multi-stem plant with light-colored bark and dark vertical stripes.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
19 Feb. 2026
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Let the bark chill in the fridge, and break it into chunks once fully cooled.—
Ashley Oerman,
SELF,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Plush beds, marble bathrooms, wooden floors, and brass light fixtures evoke the feeling of a luxe sailing yacht adorned in deep blues and rich greens.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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Mexico was the scene for yacht captain Bob Parsons and librarian Beverly Carriveau’s summer romance that lasted through the decades.—
Maureen Ohare,
CNN Money,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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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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The sailboat, carrying five girl campers and a 19-year-old female camp counselor, was among the first boats to leave the Miami Yacht Club’s dock near the MacArthur Causeway and head east toward Hibiscus Island in Biscayne Bay, according to the suit.—
Milena Malaver,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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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 22 Feb. 2026.
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