as in boat
a large craft for travel by water
a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean
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as in to send
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
we shipped those books out yesterday
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Recent Examples of ship
Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
The number of ships arriving in Long Beach from China is dropping precipitously – and is expected to fall 44% in the first week of May, year on year.
—Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Apr. 2025
The Baltic Dry, which measures the cost of shipping certain commodities, was up Tuesday but is down 20% since the April 2 tariff announcement.
—Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Lindo Cho’s colorful costumes play with period details, and David Rockwell’s sets even include a massive pirate ship.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
The number of ships arriving in Long Beach from China is dropping precipitously – and is expected to fall 44% in the first week of May, year on year.
—Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
Read on for all the other stylish tiny homes on Amazon ready to ship right to you.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Apr. 2025
The Baltic Dry, which measures the cost of shipping certain commodities, was up Tuesday but is down 20% since the April 2 tariff announcement.
—Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ship
Noun
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Rescuers used two fire boats, a helicopter and personal watercraft to look for the boy, as well as personnel on the beach, Guzman said.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Vuong fled Vietnam by boat and came to the United States at age 8 with her family.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Multiple federal agencies on April 11 sent a letter to Harvard University accusing the college of violating federal civil rights law for not doing enough to combat antisemitism during student protests of the Israel-Hamas war.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Maintain nerve and muscle health: These minerals help your muscles contract and relax, while also helping to send messages from your brain to other areas of your body.—
Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH,
Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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The crew aboard a converted Navy vessel known as the Okeanos Explorer have since April 8 been mapping and exploring unexplored deepwater regions of Hawaii.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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For the week ending May 3, the number of freight vessels leaving China and headed to the Southern California ports, the main U.S. ports receiving Chinese freight and other Asian trade, is down 29% week over week, according to Port Optimizer, a tracking system for ships.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Every barrel is transported via the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to the port of Valdez, where it is loaded onto tanker ships.—
Brett Watson,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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Big cats like lions would have been captured in northern Africa, then transported across the sea before being moved across a network of rivers and eventually the road from London to York.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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The announcement comes as tensions surge across the Middle East, with the U.S. deploying more warships and aircraft in response to Iranian threats, escalating its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, and as Israel intensifies its strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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The gap between conventional warships and autonomous ones keeps getting blurred as the latter grow in size and capabilities.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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“Ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ship. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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