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Recent Examples of warship
The Ford was pulled from action just over a week after the fire, with the Navy saying the 100,000-ton warship was being sent to a US base at Souda Bay, Greece, for repairs.
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Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
The once-largest navy in the world had to borrow a warship from Germany to fulfill its NATO obligations to patrol the North Atlantic.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2026
On Saturday, the USS Tripoli, a naval warship, arrived in the Middle East carrying about 3,500 sailors and Marines and a transport of fighter planes.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
In the current case, the Navy now has so few vessels that the loss of even one ultra-valuable major warship would be a humiliation; the loss of several, a catastrophe.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
The once-largest navy in the world had to borrow a warship from Germany to fulfill its NATO obligations to patrol the North Atlantic.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2026
On Saturday, the USS Tripoli, a naval warship, arrived in the Middle East carrying about 3,500 sailors and Marines and a transport of fighter planes.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
In the current case, the Navy now has so few vessels that the loss of even one ultra-valuable major warship would be a humiliation; the loss of several, a catastrophe.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
Noun
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There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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York helped row and tow the party’s barge, which was the size of a semi-truck trailer.—
Craig Fehrman,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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On July 28, Insua was operating a tugboat pushing a barge loaded with construction debris with a deckhouse and crane obstructing the vessel's front view, per the statement.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The 287-foot freighter was intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef in 1985.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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In this screenshot from one of the live cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the new Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL freighter is being jettisoned away from the station.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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The tanker is believed to have carried approximately 9,000 gallons of gasoline during the crash.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
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In 1990, a tanker ship ran over its own anchor; a quarter century later, a pipeline on land ruptured, sending a river of oil straight to the sea.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Martie now buys bulk overstock from trendy companies, then ships orders from its Texas warehouse.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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One of those involved the ship's toilet, which has had problems dumping liquid waste overboard as required.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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The Grammy award-winning band was followed by a dozen corvettes carrying honorees and the university's new president, Dwayne Tucker.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
18 Oct. 2025
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Hull numbers provided by Japan's Defense Ministry identified the Russian vessels as the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, the corvette Gremyashchy and a replenishment ship.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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While seated in the back of the cruiser, Woods is seen hiccupping and intermittently closing his eyes, at one point leaning back and keeping them shut for several seconds before facing forward again.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2026
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Body camera footage released by Connecticut State Police, taken from a trooper at the scene, shows the trooper jumping over a metal guardrail to avoid being struck just seconds before the driver of a BMW M340 approached and slammed into the cruiser.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warship. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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