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Recent Examples of unsinkable
The company became famous for its 13-foot The Unsinkable Legend boat, which Fisher sawed in half and motored around in the aft portion to prove his unsinkable claim to be true.
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Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 14 July 2025
The attempt to lift the yacht off the seabed is expected later this month and should help shed light on how a supposedly unsinkable vessel disappeared into the sea.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
At first, Taiwan was primarily a military asset – an unsinkable aircraft carrier off China’s coast – whose cultural similarity to China enabled its companies to partner with American firms, investing in China during the 1980s.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
So the analysis confirmed the testimony of naval architect Edward Wilding—who helped design Titanic—as to how a ship touted as unsinkable could have met such a fate.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
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Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 14 July 2025
The attempt to lift the yacht off the seabed is expected later this month and should help shed light on how a supposedly unsinkable vessel disappeared into the sea.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
At first, Taiwan was primarily a military asset – an unsinkable aircraft carrier off China’s coast – whose cultural similarity to China enabled its companies to partner with American firms, investing in China during the 1980s.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
So the analysis confirmed the testimony of naval architect Edward Wilding—who helped design Titanic—as to how a ship touted as unsinkable could have met such a fate.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsinkable
Adjective
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The black expanse of thin, dense and relatively young basalt from those centers stands in stark contrast to thicker, more buoyant continental crust, which is primarily granite but contains the full gamut of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks and can be billions of years old.—
Evan Howell,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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There are weak patches, but the four actors (Wilde, MVP Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz) keep it buoyant, with a crackling energy that makes the endless streams of overlapping talk play like jazz.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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Social media posts and years of reviewing cookie-cutter luxury hotels had conditioned me to equate floating breakfasts, monogrammed accessories, butler service, and aromatherapy menus as markers of a dreamy luxury vacation.—
Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The resulting funding gap meant Edwards and his leadership team had to get creative in order to keep the organization afloat.—
Natalie Wallington,
MLK50,
3 Feb. 2026
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As result, consumers hoard their money instead of spending it, forcing businesses to trim wages, staff and prices to remain afloat.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Unsinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsinkable. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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