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Recent Examples of umiak
Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors.
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Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for umiak
Noun
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In 2020, Kathleen’s daughter Maeve and grandson Gideon died in a canoe accident.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
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During Spring Break, the Heard will host nature story time, a bird walk and a wetland canoe trail.—
Alyson Rodriguez,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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L’Epée 1839 reinterpreted La Regatta as a Métiers d’Art creation with Georgian enameler David Kakabadze, designed as a vertical clock with a long, slender silhouette drawn from a racing skiff through a blue, rare flinqué enameling technique.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
19 Jan. 2026
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From the skiff, Jewel prayed as the officers cuffed the men, allegedly roughed one up, and eventually coerced him into revealing where the stash was.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
13 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Highlights range from nature journaling and birding for beginners courses to birding by kayak.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
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The park has a variety of attractions, including more than 16 miles of trails ranging in difficulty, 90-acre Tucket Lake that can be fished, swim and kayak, and acts as a seasonal home to many migratory birds, like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.—
Lana Ferguson,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Rivera, who met Goldberg at a dinner with his manager five years ago, ran with the idea, placing a cast of Puerto Rican luminaries in the famous rowboat alongside Bad Bunny — who is draped in the Puerto Rican flag and standing in Washington’s place.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Next comes Emergency Medical Services in a rowboat.—
Rabbi Steve Roth,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Nguyen was among those refugees, crowding as a teen on a dinghy heading for international waters.—
Todd Harmonson,
Oc Register,
18 Dec. 2025
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Dock the dinghy at Bar One to enjoy a frozen cocktail or an ice-cold beer at this floating bar anchored offshore.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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That material will then be suctioned up along with seawater and loaded onto large barges, known as scows, which carry a slurry of sediment, rocks and debris.—
Teresa Tomassoni,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Jan. 2026
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The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
Sira Thierij,
NPR,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Harrison, also a Santa Monica lifeguard who often did Hollywood stunt work, was tapped to help organize California’s first outrigger race in 1959 from Catalina Island to Newport Beach.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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The resort also has a gorgeous, airy gym with those same views of the volcano, tennis and pickle-ball courts, and solid ocean programming that includes sunrise paddles in the resort’s outrigger canoe, paddle boarding, snorkeling, and diving.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Umiak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/umiak. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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