pullers

plural of puller

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Noun
  • Rather than waiting weeks for a shipping container, sailors at forward bases can soon hit print.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
  • Pressed against the ship's railing, the sailors spotted a lighthouse and a water tower through binoculars.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • These outposts were intended to be manned by British seamen armed with antiaircraft weaponry.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • The South cried hypocrisy on slavery, given that the seamen of Providence, Rhode Island, played a central role in the Atlantic slave trade.
    James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • Corrosion begins when water, oxygen and salts reach steel.
    Alex Krasnok, Scientific American, 25 June 2026
  • For heavy fluid loss, oral rehydration salts are best and are sold in pharmacies across most low- and middle-income countries.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Troutman said nonurgent calls redirected to the nurse navigators will result in cost savings for Arlington.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
  • Additionally, employers should provide dedicated benefits navigators to guide employees through complex survivor benefits, Social Security, and life insurance decisions.
    Christine Michel Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • His fellow University of Pennsylvania football players performed cheek swabs on students who stopped to sign up at the event this spring.
    Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Before Werhan left the police barracks, troopers seized his phone and his clothes and took swabs of his hands and face.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • There’s no keel, so the skilled oarsmen work hard to steer them with each stroke.
    Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In Outbound, 2023, oarsmen paddle a boat out to sea, escorted by sinister seagulls.
    James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Where the Battle of the Gullet struggles isn’t to do with how handmade the gunwales are, nor how battered the oars.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
  • In retaliation, Poseidon whips up the ocean, shredding sails, cracking oars, sweeping Odysseus and his men overboard.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Mummification experts at Saqqara drew on a continental network that supplied oils, tars and resins, combining these materials with specialized techniques of antisepsis, embalming, wrapping and coffin sealing.
    R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Pullers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pullers. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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