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as in to haul
to support and take from one place to another
there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground
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Recent Examples of ferry
Jennifer Liu
zachary Green, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Waymo’s autonomous Jaguar I-PACE cars have been ferrying paying customers around San Francisco since August 2023, and are now doing rides or testing in Austin, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Miami, and other cities.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 26 May 2025
Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025
Rules enacted by the Air Resources Board requires commercial harbor craft like tugboats and ferries to reduce their emissions by 2035.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Verb
Everything from food to gas to everyday essentials are more expensive on Waiheke because they must be ferried from greater New Zealand.
—Jennifer Liu
zachary Green, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Waymo’s autonomous Jaguar I-PACE cars have been ferrying paying customers around San Francisco since August 2023, and are now doing rides or testing in Austin, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Miami, and other cities.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 26 May 2025
Noun
But 90-minute ferries from Boston—which has the nearest major airport, Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)—are an easy way to eclipse the Outer Cape traffic.
—Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025
Rules enacted by the Air Resources Board requires commercial harbor craft like tugboats and ferries to reduce their emissions by 2035.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferry
Verb
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The operation is massive: participants haul wagons and horses up to Nevada from all over California and coordinate nightly rest stops in shopping centers, ranches, even neighborhoods.—
Tina Li,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2025
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The drop in foreign goods could mean fewer jobs at the warehouses that store them and the trucking companies that haul them around, wrote Michael Madowitz, an economist at the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Imagine a cargo ship sailing into the Chesapeake Bay and launching hundred of drones at Washington D.C. and the Norfolk naval base.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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It was supposed to head south to refuel in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, before heading out of New York Harbor and was never meant to sail under the bridge.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
Noun
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The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The 175-footer serves as the central hub during the team’s global fishing tour, transporting smaller fishing boats, tons of fuel, and toys such as a two-person submersible, KTM electric dirt bikes, and a Bell 505 helicopter.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 June 2025
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The victim was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Verb
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In the yachting world, the Cannes Film Festival means one thing: the start of the summer boating season.—
Katia Damborsky,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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For those who want the boat-life experience but don't require a private charter, there is the option of river boating or small-boat cruising.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Roth was released from prison in June 1985 after serving 16 years for the fatal shooting of a Topeka taxi driver.—
Stephanie Warsmith,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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Junior suites deliver enough space for a family of three to sprawl out in between taxi rides into Venice, and a poolside rooftop bar offers respite for parents monitoring high energy kiddos swimming away summertime twilight.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Israeli forces early Monday detained an aid boat bound for Gaza while carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists.—
Bradford Betz , Yonat Friling,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2025
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The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Staying in Mountain Village positions you for a seamless bike-in, bike-out experience—simply roll out from your hotel, hop on the gondola or chairlift, and hit the Telluride Bike Park’s flowing berms and scenic singletrack.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
23 May 2025
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Quinn, Matt, and Maya join them but grow distracted long enough for Griffin to fall into a passing gondola.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
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“Ferry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferry. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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