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Recent Examples of whaler
Arctic explorers, such as the British whaler William Scoresby, struggled to navigate expanding sea ice.
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Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
The man — who has not been publicly identified — sustained two shark bites that are believed to be from a large bronze whaler shark, said Shark Watch South Australia, an online community dedicated to sharing shark incidents, citing a public report.
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Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
People have monitored those temperatures since the 1870s, when whalers threw buckets into the sea to take rudimentary measurements.
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Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
These waters are the only ones in Australia where divers can spot inquisitive Galápagos whaler sharks.
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Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for whaler
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
The man — who has not been publicly identified — sustained two shark bites that are believed to be from a large bronze whaler shark, said Shark Watch South Australia, an online community dedicated to sharing shark incidents, citing a public report.
—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
People have monitored those temperatures since the 1870s, when whalers threw buckets into the sea to take rudimentary measurements.
—
Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
These waters are the only ones in Australia where divers can spot inquisitive Galápagos whaler sharks.
—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for whaler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whaler
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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.
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While a number of groups, including Tsai, have invested multiple times in PLL, Rabil said that with each funding round the group typically sought a leading role from a new banker.
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Aymen Sifour, a banker who lives in Montreal, flew into town with his sister and parents.
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The area is by a busy commercial stretch near the Steamship Authority ferry terminal, where tourists spill into the island’s cobblestoned downtown.
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Caladesi Island State Park A contender for the most secluded beach in Florida, Caladesi Island State Park, just north of Clearwater Beach in the Tampa Bay Area, is accessible by private boat or ferry from Honeymoon Island State Park.
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This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.
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Bemis, sold by her family in China and sent to America, worked as a domestic, not as a hooker.
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For a shrimper already operating on slim margins, that's not just an inconvenience.
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Gulf Coast shrimpers have been pummeled in recent years by natural and man-made disasters, as well as rising fuel costs.
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The Hang Seng tech index was last down 2.6%, with Xiaomi Corp as the largest dragger, falling more than 7%.
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These draggers also tossed more than 48,000 chum salmon overboard in 2024, along with 4.5 million pounds of halibut, 3 million pounds of herring, and one killer whale, according to NOAA.
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The ships use purse seiner nets and demersal trawlers, destroying the coral underneath and, consequently, the habitat for fish.
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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But nearly a decade since the first city-run ferryboat set sail, the system has been working to win over skeptics.
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Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her.
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“Whaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whaler. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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