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Recent Examples of tanker
Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.
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James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 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
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James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
Noun
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Lookouts on boats Days after the accident, civil maritime attorneys weighed in and explained that the crash could be the result of the barge not having a proper lookout.—
David Goodhue
October 31,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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But efforts to drag the barge to the site via helicopter failed, with the icebreaker getting stuck in ice and mud.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Theories range from the Edmund Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The warship’s presence around the UK will also contribute to wider maritime security operations.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Smith made history as the first Black Commanding Officer of a Canadian warship in 2014 and the first Black commanding officer of the unit in 2021.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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The steamship was capable of carrying over 1,100 passengers and crew.—
Raul A. Reyes,
NBC news,
5 Nov. 2025
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By the late 1800s, with railroads, threshing machines, large slaughterhouses and steamships with refrigeration, Argentina exported vast quantities of wheat and beef to England.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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At 638-feet long, the ship delivered limestone and was considered the most updated and the largest steamer on the Great Lakes at the time, according to the Presque Isle County Historical Museum.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Watch this video for 3 ways to use a steamer to clean your home.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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To evaluate its performance, researchers applied a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model called Snowbedfoam to simulate snow transport and assess the snow-drifting effects around Helioplant systems.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Prosecutors said Lopez-Oliva helped Lopez transport victims to and from the New Orleans Airport.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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