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Recent Examples of workboat
The Italian yard, known for building high-performance steel and aluminium workboats, established Forte Yachts to produce stylish pleasure crafts.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
At the same time, the firm is testing a new, 29-foot-long workboat for the US Coast Guard that can be operated by remote control from shore or switched to a fully autonomous mode.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
At the same time, the firm is testing a new, 29-foot-long workboat for the US Coast Guard that can be operated by remote control from shore or switched to a fully autonomous mode.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workboat
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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.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Arctic explorers, such as the British whaler William Scoresby, struggled to navigate expanding sea ice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
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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
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Some shrimpers readily acknowledged the broad uncertainty around Mr. Trump’s tariffs and their impact.—
Emily Cochrane,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Witnesses watch as barge hits sailboat of campers The operator likely couldn’t hear from inside the pilot house atop the towboat, the captain said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Then, once your stay is over, guests hop right back on that glacier ferry for one more magical ride back to real life, but not before all those arctic creatures come out to wave goodbye.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2025
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Shepler's Mackinac Island Ferry and Arnold Transit Company run ferry rides about every 30 minutes between April and October, during tourist season.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Maintaining the tugboat became cumbersome, and three Zizian members opted to move into box trucks before squatting in a Bay Area trailer lot owned by Curtis Lind, then age 80, a former shipworker and grandfather of four.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
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The strikes took place on a military base on the peninsula and in Sevastopol Bay, a Russian tugboat was also hit, according to the GUR.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Workboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workboat. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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