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Recent Examples of seiner
Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings.
—Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
By Six Seiners Sharon said she was nearly run down by six seiners while coming down the coast from Point Arguello.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
Take a scenic drive along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up with their catch.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
Anyone who has ever worked aboard a seiner has horror stories of close calls, or worse.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings.
—Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
By Six Seiners Sharon said she was nearly run down by six seiners while coming down the coast from Point Arguello.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
Take a scenic drive along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up with their catch.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
Anyone who has ever worked aboard a seiner has horror stories of close calls, or worse.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seiner
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In 1855, the desk was recovered by an American whaler and Congress appropriated funding to refit the ship that the desk was on to England, as a gift to Queen Victoria.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.—
Dorothy Wickenden,
The New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2023
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Several bankers and investors, like Kopp and Kimmel, also called out women’s sports — where advertisers spent $244 million in 2024, a 139% increase year-over-year — as a continuing growth opportunity.—
Mark J. Burns,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The new prime minister of Canada, the former central banker Mark Carney, was able to appeal to voters’ patriotism when rebutting Trump’s demand to annex his country, and his punitive tariffs.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.—
Michael Taylor,
Forbes,
22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.—
Ann Benoit,
NOLA.com,
27 Oct. 2017
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This tiny neighboring island is a short ferry ride from Grand Turk and home to clean beaches and remnants of the region’s salt-producing past.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
10 Mar. 2025
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Petite Martinique can only be reached via boat from Carriacou—the quick 30-minute ferry ride is offered once or twice a day on weekdays.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Mar. 2025
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Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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However, the British trawlers got smart and got harder to catch because from 1928, they were equipped with radio and started passing messages between themselves using secret codes to alert each other when Coast Guard vessels were in and out of harbour.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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With a vast deep-water area to search, team member Richard Keen, a legendary diver who previously discovered several Roman wrecks off the coast of Guernsey, decided to check with local fishermen to see if any had snagged trawler gear on an underwater obstruction.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 Mar. 2022
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The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.—
John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 July 2018
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“Seiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seiner. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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