as in sailors
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
a book about the adventurous lives of tars, skippers, and pirates of the 18th century
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Recent Examples of tars
R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
Mummification experts at Saqqara drew on a continental network that supplied oils, tars and resins, combining these materials with specialized techniques of antisepsis, embalming, wrapping and coffin sealing.
—R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tars
Noun
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Black sailors and soldiers defended the nation, expecting recognition and security.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
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The regiment, established in 2007, provides comprehensive, personalized and non-medical care for wounded, ill and injured Marines and sailors attached to Marine units and their families.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
28 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Climate change, industrial pollution, inadequate sanitation that pollutes drinking water sources with human waste — these are all factors in the water crisis.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2026
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For example, forum participants said a person could sue a company or entity that pollutes a river because the river has the right to be pollution-free.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In the case of Galaxidi, however, the flour war seems to be of more recent vintage, namely from the 19th century, when traveling mariners took their inspiration from similar happenings in Sicily.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 2026
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This will be a dangerous storm for mariners — with the potential for at least 25-foot seas offshore.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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At one point, the prisoner soils himself, prompting a vomitous reaction.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Aluminum salts in vaccines might pose a health risk.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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De-icing products such as anti-freeze and salts can be toxic to pets, experts say.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The shelter will not be a walk-in shelter, only open to those who receive referrals from the city’s homeless services navigators or police officers, according to Bontrager.—
Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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Updating essential health benefits to fully integrate behavioral health, increasing reimbursement for primary care and funding community health workers and care navigators would pay dividends in outcomes and equity.—
Jesse Jackson Jr,
Washington Post,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The adventurous actress dirties up her frock and face to play the village pariah, who reeks of fish and would be no man’s idea of a suitable wife, except perhaps the one-eyed bum who sleeps in the town square.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The five pieces offer, in turn, biomorphic hints of de Kooning, the ragged shapes of Clyfford Still, the bold geometries of Ellsworth Kelly, the paint smears of Gerhard Richter, and something that looks like toothpaste squeezed onto an orange peel.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Teachers Union leader Randi Weingarten smears Trump voters as fascists!—
The Hill,
The Hill,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Tars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tars. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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