jolly boat

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Noun
  • But much of Sasaki’s early success could depend on the effectiveness of his third pitch, an improving slider that has taken several forms for Sasaki over the years — from a slower bender with big spin and break, to a slightly firmer version that acts more like a cutter.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • More news: Dodgers Pitcher Reveals Details of His Recruiting Call With Roki Sasaki Kopech's fastball touched 102 mph last season, a weapon few pitchers are able to pair with his command, along with a plus slider and cutter.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Stuck in a lifeboat for nearly three weeks, the four survivors ultimately resorted to devouring one of their boatmates in order to survive.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Given global streamers have been the fundamental industry driver of recent years – and lifeboat in 2020 – their corrective plays out over the whole industry.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The items for hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken tenders and more all get delivered to each stand in a process that can take up to four days.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The trick to achieving their signature tender, bouncy texture?
    Megan Zhang, Saveur, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • High up the sides of the room is a forest of fake fir trees on the peaks of the mountain and on the lower level there’s a harbour with full-size longboats sitting in it.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Noun
  • Here’s to the week ahead, and don’t hesitate to reach out with comments, questions, feedback, joy, or news of a rocket launch in your future.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The meme coin’s developers have limited the supply of $TRUMP to 200 million coins at launch before expanding the overall supply to 1 billion over the next three years, according to the coin’s website.
    Ty Roush, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The station, an auxiliary of Sacramento State, in a civil lawsuit filed last month is seeking $900,000 in damages from former general manager Jun Reina and for his 4,500-square-foot West Sacramento home to be placed in a trust.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the US Air Force and nonprofit organization.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Noun
  • Blue Origin, however, failed to meet its secondary goal of recovering the reusable booster stage of the rocket—which was supposed to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic but was lost during reentry.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The company conceded that the goal of landing the rocket's reusable first stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean failed, after the booster was lost during reentry.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
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