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merchant ship

noun

Definition of merchant ship

as in motor ship

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Recent Examples of merchant ship But how those military assets figure into getting merchant ships moving through the strait again is not defined. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 May 2026 Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo. — Nbc News, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026 As far back as 1975, when President Gerald Ford rescued the SS Mayaguez, the merchant ship captured by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, presidents have acknowledged the law and dutifully reported their military actions to Congress. — Sarah Burns, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026 Under the cover of night on July 30, 1949, the Amethyst quenched all its lights on board and shadowed a passing Chinese merchant ship, the Kiangling Liberation, following it through the tricky shoals of the river. — Anne Ewbank, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for merchant ship

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Noun

The Navy described the event as its first successful connection between an underway aircraft carrier’s control station and an MQ-25A aircraft.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
The aircraft carrier After she is shot, President Penn is airlifted in Marine One to a docked United States aircraft carrier for surgery.

— Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of aircraft carrier

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After a grueling couple of days for tech stocks—propelled by drama and speculation around CoreWeave’s debt—traders bought the dip in the last 24 hours and stocks rose globally.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Aside from the change in volume, the mere announcement of the ban had an immediate impact on diesel prices among European traders, as noted by the Moscow Times at the time.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of trader

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Passenger boats have not passed through these parts since the days of the steamship petered all the way out some 60 years ago.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
The paperboard card could be used to buy airline, steamship and cruise tickets, but the balance had to be paid in full each month.

— USA Today, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamship

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The wreckage may have come from a schooner barge, a type of merchant vessel commonly used to transport cargo along the East Coast during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Robinson said.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Alabama Jack’s rebuilt on a barge and reopened in March 1966.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of barge

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Prior research has used bee stinger structure as inspiration for the design of microneedles, tissue transport devices, and drilling devices.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026
The latest conflict between the Saudis and the Houthis began last month after the rebels seized key areas along the Bab al Mandab strait, a critical waterway for the transport of gulf oil and other goods at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen.

— Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of transport

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Dragon is the only currently operational freighter that can carry cargo in the downward direction.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026
New orders secured The company has reportedly attracted over 100 orders for the new freighter even as flight testing gets underway.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

Strong demand for oil, particularly from Asia, continues to provide an incentive for tanker operators to transport energy supplies from the Persian Gulf, even as security threats complicate voyages.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Smaller ships occupied other berths, and one tanker was loading at an offshore mooring, with a UAE naval corvette standing guard nearby.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tanker

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