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Recent Examples of lightship
The clapboard houses, lightship baskets, and roses climbing up the side of Sconset roofs inspired a sense of permanence.
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William D. Cohan, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
Benjamin Stone: Serving from 1937 to 1941, Stone was the keeper when the U.S. Lighthouse Service was disbanded and all lighthouses and lightships were placed under the supervision of the Coast Guard.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025
Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
—Longreads, 4 May 2023
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
—oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
All this means that the charming Bajoran lightship that Captain Sisko builds on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicted in the show as a medieval construction of metal and wood, is only feasible if the Bajoran sun were powerful enough to probably incinerate the entire space station in the first place.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2020
The lightship is safely docked in the water, only minutes away from the city center.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
William D. Cohan, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
Benjamin Stone: Serving from 1937 to 1941, Stone was the keeper when the U.S. Lighthouse Service was disbanded and all lighthouses and lightships were placed under the supervision of the Coast Guard.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025
Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
—Longreads, 4 May 2023
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
—oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
All this means that the charming Bajoran lightship that Captain Sisko builds on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicted in the show as a medieval construction of metal and wood, is only feasible if the Bajoran sun were powerful enough to probably incinerate the entire space station in the first place.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2020
The lightship is safely docked in the water, only minutes away from the city center.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightship
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Using highly specialized transporters, engineers maneuvered the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt, from inside NASA Michoud to the agency’s Pegasus barge.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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The barge has taken measures to contain and collect the vegetable oil.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Steam Wrinkles Out of Upholstery and Curtains When filled with water and set to a steam setting, an iron can easily double as a steamer.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
23 Apr. 2026
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There the steamer has remained and become a home for marine life.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Operating six weekly flights with a dedicated FedEx Boeing 777 freighter, shipments from Vietnam are consolidated in Ho Chi Minh City before being transported to Singapore for a direct flight to Anchorage.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2026
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General Dynamics Bath Iron Works stated on April 28 that the warship had departed its Maine shipyard and entered open waters to undergo performance testing.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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That warship, an expeditionary sea base, is about the size of an aircraft carrier and can support helicopters and special forces.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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The tanker had departed from the port of Berbera and was heading to the Somali capital of Mogadishu when it was intercepted, a colonel with the Puntland Maritime Police Force told The Associated Press.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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On Saturday, the Hoehne Fire Protection District shared a video of an air tanker assisting in the suppression efforts.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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McKinney’s Bloem collier was the centerpiece, an asymmetrical botanical design.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Emory, who lives about a half-hour from the forge, was able to trace her ancestry to Robert Patterson, a free African American with ties to Catoctin who worked as a collier, producing the charcoal used to run furnaces, and who also owned a farm.—
Usha Lee McFarling,
STAT,
3 Aug. 2023
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“Lightship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightship. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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