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as in barge
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Recent Examples of icebreaker
One tried to use it as an icebreaker.
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Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Aboard the icebreaker Araon, senior scientists set the research priorities.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Sometime in the next week, another part of the team, working from the South Korean icebreaker RV Araon, aims to drop another cable, which a robot will traverse once a day, down to a rocky moraine in the Amundsen Sea.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Aqua Expeditions is bringing Aqua Lares, a former icebreaker reimagined as a superyacht, to the region.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Aboard the icebreaker Araon, senior scientists set the research priorities.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Sometime in the next week, another part of the team, working from the South Korean icebreaker RV Araon, aims to drop another cable, which a robot will traverse once a day, down to a rocky moraine in the Amundsen Sea.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Aqua Expeditions is bringing Aqua Lares, a former icebreaker reimagined as a superyacht, to the region.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
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As described in the New Testament, a Seder was the last supper of Jesus Christ, who was Jewish.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Slices of the cheesy, savory pastry are equally appropriate for breakfast, brunch, lunch, a snack, a first course for dinner or the main course for a light supper.—
Georgeanne Brennan,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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On Wednesday, Lorenzo Palomares, the attorney for the company that owns the barge, said Insua was a good employee.—
April 3,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Malin Augustea barge has been used for frigate float-off operations for both HMS Active and the first ship in the Type 31 class, HMS Venturer.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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Seven hours of blissful, undisturbed snoozing could very well involve limiting caffeine intake, drinking chamomile tea and avoiding blue light before bedtime.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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The more virtuous may prefer the nonalcoholic Easter Egg Hunt mocktail, a mix of strawberry, coconut, pineapple, orange and butterfly pea tea ($12).—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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But a major turning point in the power of the office occurred in 2009 with the contested reelection of the hard-liner president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud.—
Roxane Razavi,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) recently unveiled a Southeast Asia-to-Indian subcontinent service that give the liner its first dedicated route linking Southeast Asia with India’s west coast and Pakistan.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Despite their deep appreciation for analog technology, denim heads remain active on socials, especially on Instagram.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Riders meet on Thursday evenings at 8pm at Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington Park (Esplanade and Mystery St); check their socials for more details.—
Outside,
Outside,
17 Feb. 2026
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The tanker is believed to have carried approximately 9,000 gallons of gasoline during the crash.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
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In 1990, a tanker ship ran over its own anchor; a quarter century later, a pipeline on land ruptured, sending a river of oil straight to the sea.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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But tonight , the story of FDR’s visit to Miami will be retold at a symposium at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in downtown Miami, a stone’s throw from the courthouse where Zangara was sentenced to die.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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There is a historic relationship between visual art and nuclear war, said Jim Walsh, a senior research associate at the MIT Security Studies Program on nuclear weapons risk issues in Iran and North Korea, who is also a speaker at the exhibit’s closing symposium.—
Chloe Shrager,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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