whaler

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Recent Examples of whaler Arctic explorers, such as the British whaler William Scoresby, struggled to navigate expanding sea ice. 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
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Noun
  • 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.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Founded in 2003 by conceptual artist Michael Callies, a graduate of Frankfurt’s Stadelschüle, and former banker Stephan Jaax, dépendance resisted the explosive growth model pursued by many other galleries at the dawn of the millennium.
    News Desk, Artforum, 11 June 2026
  • Co-founded by Michael Callies, a former artist, and Stephan Jaax, a former banker, the gallery resisted expansion during its over two-decade-long history.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
    Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From the ferry, the skyline unfurls behind you.
    Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • The law forces cities to approve taller apartment and condominium complexes around rail stops, ferry terminals and rapid transit bus stops, overriding local restrictions that might have stopped development in the past.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • Bemis, sold by her family in China and sent to America, worked as a domestic, not as a hooker.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For a shrimper already operating on slim margins, that's not just an inconvenience.
    Drew Hawkins, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • Lousiana shrimper James Blanchard praises a surcharge on imports as a lifeline for the struggling U.S. industry.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Hang Seng tech index was last down 2.6%, with Xiaomi Corp as the largest dragger, falling more than 7%.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This demand fuels industrial-scale fishing operations such as bottom trawlers and purse seiners, which sweep through vast areas of ocean indiscriminately.
    Nicole Tung, NPR, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023

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