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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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The recent barge mishaps are symptoms of a supply-chain strategy warped by a century-old law that makes the most efficient vessels unaffordable.—
Colin Grabow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
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And with just a few commands, Cup of Jo went global, with images of Jo's Coffee Shop on a barge in the middle of the ocean; on a volcano in Hawaii; and in the Alps.—
Jo Ling Kent,
CBS News,
7 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Cleaner airport operations Still, the aircraft tug does far more than just slash emissions.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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The events included tug of war, a potato sack race, a soccer shoot-out, a twerk contest and a giant game of Connect 4.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
Noun
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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From the ferry, the skyline unfurls behind you.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The law forces cities to approve taller apartment and condominium complexes around rail stops, ferry terminals and rapid transit bus stops, overriding local restrictions that might have stopped development in the past.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Noun
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The keel laying was carried out by one of the shipyard’s two gantry cranes, with the first of the 17 blocks put into position to form the steel hull.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
20 Nov. 2025
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In 2022, the keel-laying ceremony for the lead boat took place, marking the start of full construction.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Nov. 2025
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This sailing school follows both Sail Canada's and keelboat certification programs as well.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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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
Noun
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Little wonder, then, that when the Knicks and Victor Wembanyama offered a feel-good lifeboat in the ongoing NBA Finals, so many sports fans hopped aboard.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
11 June 2026
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Crew members launched the D-class lifeboat and sped toward Limpet Bay.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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“Tugboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tugboat. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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