as in merchant ship
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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier
The Navy has lost a second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, a week after another jet sank into the waters, a Defense official confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.
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Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 7 May 2025
The incident is still under investigation, but the aircraft carrier has previously been targeted by the Houthis.
—Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Princess Kate was appointed Sponsor of HMS Glasgow in June 2021 and the cutting-edge Type 26 anti-submarine frigate is designed to protect the U.K.'s nuclear deterrent and aircraft carriers.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 22 May 2025
Video In recent weeks, a group of veterans and family members of veterans, ranging in age and physical ability, has been gathering in the belly of the U.S.S. Intrepid, an aircraft carrier turned museum on the Hudson River.
—Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 7 May 2025
The incident is still under investigation, but the aircraft carrier has previously been targeted by the Houthis.
—Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Princess Kate was appointed Sponsor of HMS Glasgow in June 2021 and the cutting-edge Type 26 anti-submarine frigate is designed to protect the U.K.'s nuclear deterrent and aircraft carriers.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 22 May 2025
Video In recent weeks, a group of veterans and family members of veterans, ranging in age and physical ability, has been gathering in the belly of the U.S.S. Intrepid, an aircraft carrier turned museum on the Hudson River.
—Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
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Richard Henry Dana was a Boston Brahmin and a Harvard man who took to sea on an ordinary merchant ship.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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The arrival of blue-and-white porcelain in Europe some 500 years ago (first as ballast on merchant ships from China) ignited an obsession with the exotic.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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Its data suggests the volume of crude oil and products, including refined fuels, in floating storage on tankers for seven days or longer has risen over the past month by 14% to more than 160 million barrels.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The tanker continued into the median, struck the median wall then continued west, approximately one-tenth of a mile, igniting on fire.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Emergency crews were dispatched to the area of the river near the Sikorsky facility on the report of an accident involving a personal watercraft shortly after 10 p.m., according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
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Participants must bring their own watercraft, personal flotation device, whistle, and a white electric light.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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The second reliever to follow him, Calvin Faucher, served up the 2-0 belt-high cutter on the outer third of the plate that Machado sent 408 feet to left field.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 May 2025
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But both brothers died when their cutter, the U.S.S. Tampa, was torpedoed by German U-boats.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 May 2025
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In 1986, a 520-foot freighter from South Korea scraped the underside of the bridge, destroying one of the ship’s radars.—
Joseph Goldstein,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Two-thirds of the 155 that Boeing sold were configured as freighters, including the final one that left the factory in 2023.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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The acronym — which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out — was coined by a Financial Times columnist and has since been adopted by traders attempting to navigate the dozens of changes to tariff policy Trump has announced over the early months of his presidency.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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Professional traders and algorithms move faster than retail investors, digesting and acting on information in milliseconds.—
Adam Sarhan,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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In March 2024, the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface in Lake Michigan.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 May 2025
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On the Mississippi, where Mark Twain had once waited upriver for steamships from this city, all boat traffic had fallen silent.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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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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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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