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Recent Examples of tanker
Eventually a team from TPWD arrived with a tanker truck to carry the fish back to the Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, where all the Legacy Lunkers (largemouth bass weighing 14 pounds or more) are brought to carry on the state’s selective breeding program.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2026
The stock should not have been down yesterday as the tanker program issue was discrete and FCF improved.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
The absence of tampons or diapers in the debris suggested predominantly all-male groups of litterers, such as tanker or fishing-boat crews.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The Bella 1, which was sanctioned by the US in 2024 for transporting illicit Iranian oil, was initially operating under a Guyanese flag but the crew hastily painted a Russian flag on the tanker’s hull once the US was on its tail.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2026
The stock should not have been down yesterday as the tanker program issue was discrete and FCF improved.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
The absence of tampons or diapers in the debris suggested predominantly all-male groups of litterers, such as tanker or fishing-boat crews.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The Bella 1, which was sanctioned by the US in 2024 for transporting illicit Iranian oil, was initially operating under a Guyanese flag but the crew hastily painted a Russian flag on the tanker’s hull once the US was on its tail.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
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The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring.—
Milena Malaver,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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The barge struck the sailboat head-on, causing it to tip and capsize, the lawsuit alleges.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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According to air cargo data provider Rotate, freighter capacity declined 10 percent globally week over week, as of Sunday.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
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The freighter arrived in the United Kingdom at the port of Felixstowe just 20 days later—successfully launching the first-ever Arctic commercial-container route from Asia to Europe.—
Brett Simpson,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
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The dashboard looks like a sci-fi warship.—
Byron Hurd,
The Drive,
4 Feb. 2026
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China’s 40,000-ton Sichuan warship with an advanced stealth drone could be entering the large drone testing phase of its sea trials.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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The supertanker was seen sailing under the flag of Guyana, according to the BBC.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
11 Dec. 2025
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Senator Questions Trump Admin’s Vessel Seizure The vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia has compared the seizure of the supertanker with the Trump administration’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean allegedly linked to the drug trade.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2025
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Tom Townsend, a former Putnam County school superintendent, said his family operated steamship tours showcasing the Ocklawaha before construction of the dam.—
David Bauerlein,
Florida Times-Union,
9 Feb. 2026
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As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Nov. 2025
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The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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Use a clothes steamer to help the fibers relax.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
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On sale for $25, this travel steamer is lightweight, compact, and has a quick heat-up time, plus a rotating head for easy, thorough steaming.—
Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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There is no efficient transport of material in-and-out of the core, and thus, most of the star’s interior never gets a chance to fuse simply because of its location.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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Published in the journal Communications Materials, the study reveals that the research team investigated the thermoelectric transport of molybdenum disilicide MoSi2 and found that MoSi2 is an ideal transverse thermoelectric material without a magnetic field.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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