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Recent Examples of seagoing
The two companies plan to equip up to 100 of their seagoing ships with Alsym batteries as an auxiliary power source.
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Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
But before that ship hits the waves, its safety and seagoing capabilities need to be tested in the Navy’s immense indoor ocean facility.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
The Falcon 9’s reusable first stage returned from space and successfully touched down on a seagoing landing platform in the Pacific Ocean.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
By 1640, for example, around a thousand seagoing ships were being constructed in the Netherlands each year, mostly for export markets.
—Aoife Daly, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
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Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
But before that ship hits the waves, its safety and seagoing capabilities need to be tested in the Navy’s immense indoor ocean facility.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
The Falcon 9’s reusable first stage returned from space and successfully touched down on a seagoing landing platform in the Pacific Ocean.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
By 1640, for example, around a thousand seagoing ships were being constructed in the Netherlands each year, mostly for export markets.
—Aoife Daly, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seagoing
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While European officials have expressed concern that global food, fertilizer and energy supplies are at risk as a result of the Strait of Hormuz being effectively closed, there is little appetite to expand naval operations in the Middle East to assist the movements of vessels through the channel.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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Ahead of a meeting in Brussels, the European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss possibly extending a naval mission that protects ships in the Red Sea to the Strait of Hormuz, without giving any details.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Mar. 2026
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That math pushes shippers toward barges and away from proper oceangoing vessels.—
Colin Grabow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
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In total, there were 1,009 oceangoing transits across all vessel sizes, amounting to 32.5 transits per day.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Seagoing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seagoing. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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