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yawls

noun

plural of yawl

as in ketches

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Noun

On the whole, my clients tend to favor a boutique experience with upscale yachts, luxury lodges, and private services.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Kistler says the firm sold 14 yachts last year, with a $150 million turnover.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of yachts

Noun

The 1,680-ton tunnel-boring machine unveiled Monday is nearly the length of two football fields and armed with cutters harder than diamonds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Cable-cutters can also stream the fest live online through a variety of live TV streamers such as DirecTV (which offers a 5-day free trial) and Sling TV.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of cutters

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In 2026, Tokyo lifted its decades-long ban on exporting lethal arms and agreed to build three frigates for Australia and to jointly produce eight more.

— David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Those platforms include destroyers, aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, and frigates.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of frigates

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Merchant galleons coursing into the port of Caldera would be groaning with cacao, tobacco, livestock and hardwoods, transported down by mule from the transit hub of Esparza in the mountain basin above.

— Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of galleons

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Readers are whisked away to Jamaica and the Hebrides, the post-apocalyptic future and the medieval past, university lecture halls and modest sailboats.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
This type of maritime migration is different from the once-common arrivals of rafts and other homemade vessels that Cubans are known to use to escape their homeland, and the overloaded freighters and sailboats used by people fleeing Haiti.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of sailboats

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This is great news for keeping space clear of junk and extending satellites’ lifetimes—unless China turns that ability to get close to an uncooperative satellite into a military strategy.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
The move to junk grade territory from BB+ to BB highlighted the project’s vulnerability to default.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

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