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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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And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.
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Too many banks still write job descriptions as if the next great banker must already be a banker.
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In November 2015, Mary-Kate quietly married French banker Olivier Sarkozy.
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
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One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
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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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Lousiana shrimper James Blanchard praises a surcharge on imports as a lifeline for the struggling U.S. industry.
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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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This demand fuels industrial-scale fishing operations such as bottom trawlers and purse seiners, which sweep through vast areas of ocean indiscriminately.
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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“Whaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whaler. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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