as in merchant ship
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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier
The ship was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that took part in several World War II operations.
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
The United States does not even have enough industrywide capacity to make a single Ford-class aircraft carrier per year.
—Michael Brown, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor The surprise attack, launched from Japanese aircraft carriers 230 miles north of Oahu, killed 2,390 American service members and civilians, according to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial website.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2025
He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from 2007 to 2011 and in San Diego from 2011 to 2018, serving in the Special Warfare Unit, the Special Warfare Logistics Support Unit and the Coastal Riverine Squadron.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
The United States does not even have enough industrywide capacity to make a single Ford-class aircraft carrier per year.
—Michael Brown, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor The surprise attack, launched from Japanese aircraft carriers 230 miles north of Oahu, killed 2,390 American service members and civilians, according to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial website.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2025
He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from 2007 to 2011 and in San Diego from 2011 to 2018, serving in the Special Warfare Unit, the Special Warfare Logistics Support Unit and the Coastal Riverine Squadron.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
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The kit campaign is to alert soccer fans and the public about the environmental crisis caused by the algae, that has most likely arrived in Spanish waters through the ballast waters of merchant ships.—
Claire Poole,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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In addition, the United States could arm more of its ships that don’t currently carry missiles, such as its amphibious or support vessels, or even prepare to convert merchant ships to carry missiles, as a way to rapidly increase the fleet with which the Chinese navy would have to contend.—
Stephen Biddle,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Mar. 2025
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The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Rescuers used two fire boats, a helicopter and personal watercraft to look for the boy, as well as personnel on the beach, Guzman said.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2025
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On all three waterways, officials said all boaters, including paddlers and rowers, must arrive with their watercraft clean, drained and dry.—
Daniel Hunt,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Cord cutters who don’t have Verizon can get some of the best Disney+ deals with the Disney Bundle Duo or Trio plans that also include Hulu and/or ESPN+ starting at $10.99 per month; or the Disney+, Hulu and Max bundle starting at $16.99 monthly with ads.—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
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The wholesale market got a yellow placard after county inspectors spotted old food accumulation on the ceiling panel above the meat cutter.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
21 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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At the same time, Harney ordered all the traders in the area into the fort.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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His office also went after insider traders, including the recent prosecution of a couple of Gulliver Preparatory School graduates enmeshed in a MasTec acquisition deal.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
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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. 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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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 3 May. 2025.
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