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Recent Examples of ferryboat
On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.
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Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the museum’s historic world-class ships, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
Guests who crossed the Hudson River on ferryboats to Liberty Island included Madonna, Queen Latifah and the entertainment executive Michael Eisner.
—Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
The open-deck ferryboat from Cedar Island to Ocracoke hums along for just over two hours to a terminal in a sheltered harbor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
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Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the museum’s historic world-class ships, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
Guests who crossed the Hudson River on ferryboats to Liberty Island included Madonna, Queen Latifah and the entertainment executive Michael Eisner.
—Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
The open-deck ferryboat from Cedar Island to Ocracoke hums along for just over two hours to a terminal in a sheltered harbor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferryboat
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Many arrived aboard elegant steamships, but the number of guests increased once regional railroads built tracks north to Mackinaw City in the early 1880s.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Moulton spent five weeks traveling by steamship, train and stagecoach to Santa Ana, arriving on May 6, 1874.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
19 May 2025
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But that changed in the 1950s after a barge, loaded with construction materials to build a school, got stuck near present-day Newtok and couldn’t navigate farther upriver.—
Emily Schwing,
ProPublica,
29 May 2025
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Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Back then, the steamer was the first to push content out in 4K and later HDR.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
4 June 2025
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When used together, the steamer and the mask boost curls’ retention and definition while tending to overall hair health.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
26 Apr. 2025
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After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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Limp also spotlighted Blue Origin's work on zero-boil-off technology and the firm's Transporter tanker.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
4 June 2025
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Additionally, owners of tankers supplying fuel to squid fishers are not mandated to register these vessels within fleets that directly contact fishing vessels, creating a regulatory gap that enables support with a minimal record of activities.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 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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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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Hyperloop is for transport between cities, and that would go much faster than 150 mph.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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The main unit is attached to a transparent tilt base that can disperse a little of the projector's laser light when docked, and there's a buckle lanyard for between-use transport.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 June 2025
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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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