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Recent Examples of warship
The United States Navy has not reported any damage to its warships and launched a social media campaign to counter the allegations last year.
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Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
If Henry’s men would depart, the governor would pay for the powder impounded on the warship.
—Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Facing the threat posed by the Chinese navy, which has over 370 ships and submarines, the U.S. has sent warships to the Western Pacific Ocean following upgrades, including a laser-armed destroyer and an aircraft carrier that has stealth fighter jets embarked aboard.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
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Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
If Henry’s men would depart, the governor would pay for the powder impounded on the warship.
—Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Facing the threat posed by the Chinese navy, which has over 370 ships and submarines, the U.S. has sent warships to the Western Pacific Ocean following upgrades, including a laser-armed destroyer and an aircraft carrier that has stealth fighter jets embarked aboard.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
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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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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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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 overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.—
Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2023
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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An emergency on their ship sends them scrambling, and when their crewmate (Finn Cole) gets trapped on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen in his tank, the two divers have to get creative – and fast – to save him.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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Police helicopters whirled overhead, part of the massive security operation Italian authorities mounted, including more than 2,500 police, 1,500 soldiers and a torpedo ship off the coast, Italian media reported.—
Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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The 388-foot-long corvette has a range of 4,500 nautical miles [5,178 miles] with a speed of up to 25 knots [28 miles per hour].—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Russian corvettes are armed with air defense and anti-ship missiles.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warship. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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