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Recent Examples of tugboat
The dock will be used by a small tugboat and a barge with equipment to vacuum sand and pump it through a pipe in a watery slurry onto the shoreline from Pine Avenue to just north of Cannon Road.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Francis then defrauded the U.S. government of at least $35 million by charging heavily inflated prices for routine services such as security, tugboats, trash removal, food and water replenishment.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
After nearly a decade away from the game, Amesbury carved out a unique path: working on tugboats, competing in professional lacrosse and even battling in Ice Wars, a hockey fighting competition.
—Ben Delaforest, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
The vessel is expected to depart town Monday for the first time since the collapse, accompanied by three McAllister Towing tugboats, one Moran Towing tugboat, a Coast Guard vessel and a work boat from the Resolve Marine salvage company.
—Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 23 June 2024
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Francis then defrauded the U.S. government of at least $35 million by charging heavily inflated prices for routine services such as security, tugboats, trash removal, food and water replenishment.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
After nearly a decade away from the game, Amesbury carved out a unique path: working on tugboats, competing in professional lacrosse and even battling in Ice Wars, a hockey fighting competition.
—Ben Delaforest, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
The vessel is expected to depart town Monday for the first time since the collapse, accompanied by three McAllister Towing tugboats, one Moran Towing tugboat, a Coast Guard vessel and a work boat from the Resolve Marine salvage company.
—Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 23 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tugboat
Noun
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2024
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The pieces were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday for Washington's Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members on board.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2025
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The key objective of the New Glenn's first uncrewed spaceflight last month was for the second stage of the vehicle to safely reach orbit before Blue Origin attempted to land the rocket booster, or first stage, on a barge several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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Season 3 tugs a similar string by dedicating Episode 7 to two instrumental moments from Ian and Poppy’s childhood.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2025
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Downy’s version also acts as a fabric freshener and only requires a spritz on the fabric, plus a tug and smooth to release the wrinkles.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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The half-hour ferry ride there from the Chinese territory’s main island was bustling with day trippers.—
Erin Mendell,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, other forms of transport were added giving guests the option of traveling on smaller keel boats and canoes.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The keel is the main structural member of the ship's hull and laying it down is the equivalent to laying the cornerstone of a building.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
23 Mar. 2025
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However, apart from his time competing on high-speed M32 catamarans, Canfield’s experience and success have come through racing traditional keelboats.—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Standing in front of the library bearing my name, the most imaginative student will picture my mother shivering in a lifeboat.—
Shyla Watson,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The rest of the lifeboat crew are likewise carefully particularized to create lines of possible connection and tangles of possible conflict.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Tugboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tugboat. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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