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Recent Examples of tanker
With past tanker seizures straining relations between Tehran and Washington, the move could escalate tensions further.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.
—Devendra Goyal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
That figure accounts for categories like tankers and dry bulk vessels that haven’t always conducted mass diversions, meaning container shipping’s transit volumes have a steeper decline.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.
—Devendra Goyal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
That figure accounts for categories like tankers and dry bulk vessels that haven’t always conducted mass diversions, meaning container shipping’s transit volumes have a steeper decline.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
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The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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So how did Archie Norman and CEO Stuart Machin even begin to turn around such a supertanker?—
Natalie Berg,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Moving the economy and the housing market higher are two other supertankers that will take time.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
9 Oct. 2024
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In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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Facing the threat posed by the Chinese navy, which has over 370 ships and submarines, the U.S. has sent warships to the Western Pacific Ocean following upgrades, including a laser-armed destroyer and an aircraft carrier that has stealth fighter jets embarked aboard.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.—
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Mar. 2025
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While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
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That’s a swipe of fire engine red lipstick, huge lashes, and sweeping black liner.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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Originally opened in 2014, the 354-room hotel was designed to recall a 1920s transatlantic cruise liner.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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Plans for air support had been scuttled for various reasons, but several armored transports are on the way to evacuate them from the area.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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This was caused by record global heat and cool air conditioning, rising industry consumption, electrification of transport, and growth of data centers and AI (artificial intelligence).—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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