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Recent Examples of tugboat
As midnight approached, the broken vessel was moved slowly up the East River, going under and past the Manhattan Bridge, aided by a series of tugboats, before docking at a pier.
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Ruth Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
But things got immeasurably worse once tugboats began towing them to a port in Mobile, Ala.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 June 2025
The situation was on the minds of many who cheered when the Ford steamed from its pier in Norfolk, with tugboats hugging the carrier's hull and sailors lining the sprawling deck in their dress-white uniforms.
—Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
The small harbor tugboat tows vessels to and from the Marine Group’s boat lift piers and docks.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Ruth Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
But things got immeasurably worse once tugboats began towing them to a port in Mobile, Ala.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 June 2025
The situation was on the minds of many who cheered when the Ford steamed from its pier in Norfolk, with tugboats hugging the carrier's hull and sailors lining the sprawling deck in their dress-white uniforms.
—Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
The small harbor tugboat tows vessels to and from the Marine Group’s boat lift piers and docks.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tugboat
Noun
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Witnesses watch as barge hits sailboat of campers The operator likely couldn’t hear from inside the pilot house atop the towboat, the captain said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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Others such as Yamaha’s VX Cruiser HO and Sea-Doo’s Wake Pro series are designed as towboats, complete with board racks.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The rising fifth-grader at Lehrman Day School in Miami Beach was one of five summer campers aboard a 17-foot Hobie Getaway that was hit by a 60-foot barge around 11:15 a.m. on July 28 between Hibiscus and Monument islands off Miami Beach.—
Milena Malaver,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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Mila Yankelevich, 7, and 13-year-old Erin Victoria Ko Han were also killed after the 60-foot barge being pushed by a tugboat crashed into the 17-foot Hobie Getaway sailboat with five campers — girls between the ages of 7 and 13 — and one 19-year-old female camp counselor aboard.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The nearby fire department rushed by boat to the crash site and were assisted by a private tug boat that helped douse the fire that belched black smoke from the barge, said Alton Deputy Fire Chief Matt Fischer.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Most exoplanetary discoveries instead arise through far more indirect means, such as the dip in a star’s light caused by a world passing between its sun and our telescope or the tiny wobbling of a star caused by an orbiting planet’s gravitational tug.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
Noun
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We were scheduled to take the ferry from Markarska to Brac Island this spring, but the winds were too strong for safe ferry passage.—
Amy Nelson,
Twin Cities,
10 Aug. 2025
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Coronado is a 5-mile ferry ride southwest from downtown San Diego.—
TJ Macias,
Sacbee.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Verdier’s most notable innovation is the use of a canting keel as the support for one of the foils, with the other two contact points being a foil on the rudder and, alternately, the two lateral foils.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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Instead, Gilgeous-Alexander remained at an even keel.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
14 June 2025
Noun
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Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
24 July 2025
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However, apart from his time competing on high-speed M32 catamarans, Canfield’s experience and success have come through racing traditional keelboats.—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Flight controllers and the crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat to return safely to Earth.—
Anna Commander
Hannah Parry
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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An oxygen tank exploded during the April 1970 expedition, significantly damaging the spacecraft and forcing the three-person crew to use the Lunar Module as a lifeboat.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Tugboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tugboat. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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