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Recent Examples of tanker
Today, state, federal and private firefighters deploy across the country when fires break out, along with tankers, bulldozers, helicopters and planes.
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Justin Angle, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Nine tankers arrived on Tuesday and six more the next day.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Future Starship missions to the Moon and Mars may require 10 or more tanker missions to gas up in low-Earth orbit.
—Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
Kevin McCullough, president of Aero Air, which also provides air tankers, sent some of its MD-87s to the Los Angeles fires.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
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Justin Angle, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Nine tankers arrived on Tuesday and six more the next day.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Future Starship missions to the Moon and Mars may require 10 or more tanker missions to gas up in low-Earth orbit.
—Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
Kevin McCullough, president of Aero Air, which also provides air tankers, sent some of its MD-87s to the Los Angeles fires.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
Noun
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Under the city solicitation, the project would also include a new floating stage for performers to replace the converted barge that once hosted performers at the stadium.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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That barge is nicknamed Jacklyn, after the mother of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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The freighter encountered 35-foot waves, snow and winds at 51 mph with gusts up to 66 mph.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Nov. 2024
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The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Rates for supertankers crossing from the Middle East Gulf to Asia-Pacific — a bellwether route for the oil industry — picked up by more than 40% between Jan. 9 and Jan. 14, according to pricing data from Argus Media.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Managers of offshore oil rigs, supertankers, and Antarctic research stations all appreciate the importance of food to maintaining group morale and productivity in isolated, remote, and confined situations.—
Nicola Twilley,
WIRED,
11 Feb. 2020
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At its core, this is a painting about fading: H.M.S. Temeraire was a majestic old warship that had played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar three decades earlier but, eventually, became militarily obsolete and had to be scrapped for parts.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Another historical parallel can be drawn with Trump's aggressive use of tariffs and threats of them and the arrival in 1853 of a flotilla of U.S. warships in Tokyo Bay.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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In September of 1955, Marthe boards a steamship with two other fellows from France, both men, to make the five day trip across the Atlantic to Boston.—
Lorena Galliot,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2025
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More-efficient steam engines were deployed in new factories, trains and steamships.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Cover the bowl or pan with plastic wrap, and set inside a steamer, steaming the mochi batter for 15 minutes, or until solidified and translucent.—
Ingu Chen,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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Remove wrinkles: Use a hand steamer to gently remove any wrinkles from the portion of your sheet that shows when folded down.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
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The line, however, is beginning to blur as people who vacation on yachts begin to view cruise liners through a charter lens.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Robb Report,
4 Feb. 2025
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Most recently, her lip shape liners have the Internet buzzing.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Two days later, on January 31, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing all six people on board and one person on the ground.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Six people were killed on Jan. 31 when a medical transport plane with six people onboard crashed near a Philadelphia shopping mall.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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