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Recent Examples of lightship
The clapboard houses, lightship baskets, and roses climbing up the side of Sconset roofs inspired a sense of permanence.
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William D. Cohan,
Air Mail,
23 Aug. 2025
From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets.
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New York Times,
31 July 2025
Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Longreads,
4 May 2023
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
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oregonlive,
22 Oct. 2020
This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form).
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Andrea Romano,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2020
William D. Cohan,
Air Mail,
23 Aug. 2025
From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets.
—
New York Times,
31 July 2025
Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
—
Longreads,
4 May 2023
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
—
oregonlive,
22 Oct. 2020
This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form).
—
Andrea Romano,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightship
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The dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge.
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The organization also noted that the barge carrying the fireworks was around two miles from Jackie and Shadow’s nest and that the show was scheduled to finish in under 30 minutes.
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With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country.
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In 1868, at the age of 29, John Muir arrived in San Francisco via steamship with definitive plans to wander and revel in the natural wonders of California—he’d heard of the Golden State’s geographic riches and wanted to see them for himself.
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Use a garment steamer for easier wrinkle-removal.
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For Feeling Put-together After a Flight Nothing pulls a travel outfit together faster than wrinkle-free clothes, and this compact steamer makes the process surprisingly painless.
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Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.
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Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.
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The Choe Hyon is North Korea's most advanced warship.
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Under Article 110 of UNCLOS, stateless vessels belong to no nation, so any state’s warship may exercise the right of visit and board the vessel to check its papers.
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
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Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.
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Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.
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Sotheby’s will offer Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu assis au collier (Seated Nude with Necklace), 1917, later this month.
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Holmes elevated her look by wearing nearly $80,000 worth of Arielle Ratner jewels, including the statement diamond Gatsby earrings and the diamond Gatsby collier.
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“Lightship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightship. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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