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vessels

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plural of vessel

as in ships

a large craft for travel by water a new ocean liner that claims to be the largest commercial vessel afloat

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as in boats

a small buoyant structure for travel on water any vessel that is buoyant and steerable can be entered in the annual race down the river

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as in bowls

a usually circular utensil for holding something (as food) uses a large copper vessel for beating egg whites

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as in containers

something into which a liquid or smaller objects can be put for storage or transportation any watertight vessel can be used for mixing the paints

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Recent Examples of vessels Richard Jones, a crude oil analyst at Energy Aspects, told CNN that Iran has boosted exports since mid-February and private refineries can still access some Iranian oil through their floating storage vessels, most of which are off Singapore. —

John Liu, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026 Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most critical chokepoint for oil shipments, has effectively stalled as the threat of attacks from Iran deterred vessels from passing through the waterway. —

Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026 The United States destroyed a key Iranian naval base in the Straight of Hormuz, sinking many vessels present, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the shipping lane was officially closed. —

Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2026 As the Cuban government tells it, 10 men took off from Marathon aboard two vessels and then piled everyone and everything onto one boat after the other broke down. —

David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026 Tankers and container ships are avoiding the strait after insurers cancelled coverage for vessels and global oil and gas shipping rates soared. —

Reuters wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026 In the past, Iran has even used civilian vessels to lay mines, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told me. —

Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026 In development for seven years, Sun Princess is the line’s seventeenth and biggest ship, the first in its new Sphere class of vessels. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026 In some of his finest works, like Job Mocked by His Wife and The Newborn Child, the figures in their heavy clothes are reduced to flat shapes of ocher or brown, not unlike the way, three centuries later, Giorgio Morandi would commute vessels to a pure geometry stripped of all but color and feeling. —

Nicole Krauss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

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The device could also be used to damp vibrations in aerospace vehicles, ships, and aircraft, and to provide a shield for sensitive military hardware and scientific instruments that are vulnerable to sudden shock.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
The Adventure can also carry around 2,500 crew members, about 1,000 more than on the Wish class ships.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026