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Recent Examples of tanker
With past tanker seizures straining relations between Tehran and Washington, the move could escalate tensions further.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.
—Devendra Goyal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
That figure accounts for categories like tankers and dry bulk vessels that haven’t always conducted mass diversions, meaning container shipping’s transit volumes have a steeper decline.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.
—Devendra Goyal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
That figure accounts for categories like tankers and dry bulk vessels that haven’t always conducted mass diversions, meaning container shipping’s transit volumes have a steeper decline.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanker
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The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
20 Mar. 2025
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Related article Recovery of DC jet wreckage begins as investigators review new information The wreckage was transferred, one piece at a time, from a barge to a flatbed truck parked only a couple of hundred feet from the airport’s main runway.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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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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So how did Archie Norman and CEO Stuart Machin even begin to turn around such a supertanker?—
Natalie Berg,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Moving the economy and the housing market higher are two other supertankers that will take time.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
9 Oct. 2024
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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
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.—
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Mar. 2025
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While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
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That’s a swipe of fire engine red lipstick, huge lashes, and sweeping black liner.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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Originally opened in 2014, the 354-room hotel was designed to recall a 1920s transatlantic cruise liner.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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Carney’s closure has led to longer ambulance transport times for patients in the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods, and strained emergency department services in the region, the report contends.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Singapore’s monetary authority said increases in the costs of food and private transport in March mainly contributed to the headline inflation.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanker. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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