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Recent Examples of tugboat
One was heavy enough to secure the tugboat; Lind sold it to Danielson for the price of the raw iron.
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Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Experts then came up with a sophisticated plan to use air cushions to lift the animal onto a tarp, which would have been secured to two pontoons and attached to a tugboat.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Seven years later —after Austin had successfully become a tugboat captain —a moment waiting in line with other struggling parents changed everything.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
The barge, carrying material from a seawall demolition, included a deckhouse and a construction crane that blocked the view ahead from the tugboat's pilothouse, which should have prompted Insua to have someone else on the boat act as a lookout, prosecutors alleged.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
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Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Experts then came up with a sophisticated plan to use air cushions to lift the animal onto a tarp, which would have been secured to two pontoons and attached to a tugboat.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Seven years later —after Austin had successfully become a tugboat captain —a moment waiting in line with other struggling parents changed everything.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
The barge, carrying material from a seawall demolition, included a deckhouse and a construction crane that blocked the view ahead from the tugboat's pilothouse, which should have prompted Insua to have someone else on the boat act as a lookout, prosecutors alleged.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tugboat
Noun
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But crew numbers for each towboat are the same.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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The gig is providing extra income for Novinska, who's typically a towboat captain pushing barges full of goods on the river.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Many American farmers rely on fertilizer moving by barge up the Mississippi River ahead of the planting season, limiting their ability to defer purchases.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
14 May 2026
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The 007’s collection bins sit at the center of the barge, just past the conveyor belt that deposits collected trash onto a moving conveyor that moves back and forth to deposit it into the bins.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
Noun
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What was remarkable about Newcastle was how one tug on the thread caused Nuno’s players to unravel.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Aqua Lares, originally known as Giant I, was built as an icebreaking tug in 1974 by the Dutch shipyard IHC Verschure.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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Right now, engineers and craft workers are teaming up to design and build the new ferryboat.—
Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Many whales now concentrate in a high traffic corridor between Angel Island, Alcatraz and Treasure Island, directly overlapping with ferry routes and shipping lanes.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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Riding a bike to work can also be part of a commute that also includes either a bus, a trolley, a ferry or walking.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, the keel for the Leningrad vessel had been laid down at the shipyard in January 2024.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
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Additionally, there are semirigid airships, which are similar to blimps and sometimes called blimps but have a structural metal keel.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 May 2026
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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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The 14 surviving crew members evacuated on a lifeboat, and were later picked up by the Salvamar Draco, a Spanish rescue boat.—
Pau Mosquera,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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This population had been essentially isolated there since 2013, when biologists removed some eggs to create the lifeboat population, although a small number of additional eggs from the wild have been collected over the years to try to maintain the genetic connection.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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“Tugboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tugboat. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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