motor ship

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Noun
  • Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo.
    NBC News, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
  • On the threat to merchant ships, Trump projected uncertainty.
    Ana Ceballos, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That’s exactly what happened, according to a report by The Register, where a Dutch journalist mailed a postcard with a tracker embedded in it to the HNLMS Evertsen, an air defense frigate on maneuvers escorting the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The largest piece of hardware for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Monday after a trip by barge from its factory in New Orleans, Florida Today reports.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
  • The barge is now expected to go around the northern tip of Denmark via the strait of Skagerrak toward the North Sea.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Then Vodnik threw a first-pitch cutter to Gavin Sheets.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Coast Guard shared video of Air Force pararescuemen leaping from a C-130 Hercules airplane to meet the crew of a Coast Guard cutter on Sunday.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • An injury prevented the director from carrying the award on his flight from Paris back to America, so his producer, Charles Gillibert, was charged with the transport.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • During the tournament, FIFA will deploy hybrid vehicles and encourage public transport, walking and cycling in coordination with host cities and public authorities, officials said.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • There the steamer has remained and become a home for marine life.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Motor ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor%20ship. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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