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Recent Examples of tanker
Hundreds of passengers’ plans were derailed on Wednesday when a train crashed into a tanker truck on Colorado’s Western Slope, damaging the tracks — but not just those on board were affected.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
On Friday morning, the tanker, Odessa, reached waters off South Korea's western port city of Seosan, weeks after passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a period of ceasefire talks between Iran and the United States, according to HD Hyundai Oilbank.
—ABC News, 7 May 2026
The country also retains significant tanker capacity — equivalent to roughly 37 very large crude carriers — both inside and outside the blockade.
—Anthony Di Paola, Fortune, 2 May 2026
The tanker that is the NFL Draft isn’t about be turned around on the small matter of perspective.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
On Friday morning, the tanker, Odessa, reached waters off South Korea's western port city of Seosan, weeks after passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a period of ceasefire talks between Iran and the United States, according to HD Hyundai Oilbank.
—ABC News, 7 May 2026
The country also retains significant tanker capacity — equivalent to roughly 37 very large crude carriers — both inside and outside the blockade.
—Anthony Di Paola, Fortune, 2 May 2026
The tanker that is the NFL Draft isn’t about be turned around on the small matter of perspective.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
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The fact that a humpback whale had been dredged out for days by volunteers, corralled into a barge and released into the North Sea demonstrated a collective good will toward nature that can seem all too rare.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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The reusable first-stage booster was designed to land on a nearby barge.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 May 2026
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In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,300-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Iran claimed to have struck an American warship, but Central Command said no ship was hit.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
4 May 2026
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Early delivery of warship strengthens fleet readiness The project is the second carrier availability to be completed on schedule or ahead of schedule from the Virginia shipyard.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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Fittingly built in Japan, the 500,000-ton+ (when fully laden) supertanker Seawise Giant would set sail in 1979.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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In the absence of peace talks, Tensions are building over the Strait of Hormuz, with US forces boarding a supertanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean.—
Stacey Vanek Smith,
Bloomberg,
23 Apr. 2026
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For those escaping to Philadelphia from regions nearer to Pennsylvania, clandestine travel by small boat or by road was more likely than stowing away on a steamship.—
Jeremy Mennis,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
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Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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In 2025, China completed 14 voyages, including a Cosco containership, the first containership to make a journey through the waterway.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
28 Mar. 2026
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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
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After recuperating from burns to his hands and face suffered in the crash, Morris went back to meet his wife in France, and eventually made their way in July back to Homewood, traversing the Atlantic this time by steamer.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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After immigrating to the US, my mother dispensed with some traditional cooking methods, such as using bamboo steamers, and adopted other habits that ran counter to her upbringing.—
John Mok,
Vogue,
6 May 2026
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Based on its website, the company provides services in ramp handling and commercial cleaning, as well as assistance with passengers, transport and security.—
Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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The company has also had to suspend some of its transport services and find alternate routes either to safe harbors or over land.—
Mae Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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