tanker

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Recent Examples of tanker Other agencies would also be involved in trying to determine whether the company that owned the tanker had complied with regulations. Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025 The fire caused by the tanker explosion has been extinguished, according to Reuters. Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Waldron noted that a shutdown risks shifting 15,000 barrels of daily crude supplies to highways aboard tanker trucks, suggesting the pipe already is running significantly below capacity. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025 Other defensive elements included an Italian AWACS surveillance aircraft, a NATO refueling tanker, and a German Patriot air defense system, the New York Times reported. George Petras, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tanker
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Noun
  • However, in March photos emerged of a series of new barge-like PLA ships dubbed Shuiqiao that can link together to form a loading dock from over a half-mile out to sea—drastically boosting Beijing’s land invasion potency.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Next summer, the plan is for a barge to bring over the drilling rig to start the first well.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The four crew members on board the plane, a Boeing 747 freighter, were rescued and sent to the hospital.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On Sunday, two supertankers—each carrying up to 2 million barrels—turned back in the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites raised fears of commercial shipping being targeted, Bloomberg reported.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • The navigable shipping lanes for massive supertankers are only about two miles wide in each direction, requiring vessels to pass through both Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • With a displacement of more than 100,000 tons and a length of 1,100 feet (334 meters), the Ford is the largest warship the US has ever put to sea.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • While en route to England, Nardal’s ship was attacked by a German warship.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This is my mother’s story that cannot be deleted, this is her legit experiences on steamship of American democracy.
    Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Forget the steamer in the bridal suite.
    Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This 17-piece set includes eight pots and pans in varying sizes, along with their matching lids, as well as a steamer insert.
    Dena Ogden, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps no single network has encapsulated the struggle more than Germany’s ProSieben, which has spent much of the past two years turning around a huge broadcast liner to become a digital-first business that places jack-of-all-trades streamer Joyn at the center.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Lip liner—a bona fide ’90s beauty hero—has had a major comeback in recent years.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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