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Recent Examples of workboat
With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
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Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
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
At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
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
Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
—Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
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
At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C.
—Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
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
Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
—Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workboat
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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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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
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The cast of Swept Away, the about-to-open Broadway musical that follows four whalers on an odyssey of survival and salvation, are a tight crew.Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
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In Nauru's history, it has been used as a supply shop for European whalers, according to CIA.gov.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
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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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But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, couldn't sell shrimp during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed for unemployment benefits.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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The captain of the barge's towboat reportedly lost consciousness, and the barge lost control and crashed into the pier support.Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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Victims and families settled a lawsuit with the towboat company, Magnolia Marine Transport Co., in May 2003 for an undisclosed amount.Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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While ferries don't have the same charging requirements as heavier ships, many companies are building redundancies into their crafts to ensure longer trips and less time at the charging station: Many ferries are powered by both batteries and diesel engines that can be used to offset one another.Leah Carroll, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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After a ferry delivered him to Oakland, Muir set out on foot and walked some 300 miles to Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2024
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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Francis then charged the U.S. government heavily inflated prices for services such as security, tugboats, food, water replenishment and trash removal.Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The tugboat sits on eight acres of private land with swimming and fishing accessibility, and is surrounded by hiking trails.Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Workboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workboat. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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