aircraft carrier

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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier On Sunday, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning entered waters near the strategic Bashi Channel south of Taiwan, which separates the island from the Philippines. Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024 One day, not far from port, Ivan’s boat passed 50 meters from an American aircraft carrier that looked straight out of Hollywood. Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024 At the end of World War II the U.S. was whipping up an aircraft carrier a month; the most recent one took more than a decade. Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024 The Big Story More US bomber aircraft, warships heading to Middle East Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered more warplanes and Navy ships to the Middle East to maintain U.S. presence in the region as an aircraft carrier strike group is preparing to leave, the Pentagon announced Friday. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for aircraft carrier 
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Noun
  • The movie takes place on a merchant ship bound for London and becomes a survival horror story as the crew starts getting laid to waste by a most surprising passenger hidden within the boxes below deck.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • And in November 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, launched an ongoing campaign of attacks on more than 100 merchant ships in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade and resulting in delays and cost increases for container shipping from Asia to Europe and North America.
    Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The tanker, however, will remain empty of any nuclear materials during its three-week test run.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The military has also deployed a warship to Valencia, bringing helicopters, watercraft, trucks, food and emergency supplies.
    Atika Shubert, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
  • One drawback of battery-electric watercraft lies in the fact that their batteries take a relatively long time to charge.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Billionaire Michael Krasny lists home in the Park Tower for $3.4M American Airlines tests boarding technology that audibly shames line cutters Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox have a new TV home.
    Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Even Bobby Portis is keeping his eyes up, passing up his usual mid-range looks in favor of hitting cutters like Taurean Prince on backdoor slashes.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Deliveries of all 737 Max planes as well as freighter models have been halted by the strike.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Max, as well as two freighter models, the 777F and 767F, are built in unionized plants shut down by the strike.
    Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The momentum shows no signs of slowing — among seasoned traders and newcomers alike.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • As of Wednesday, Wall Street traders were nearly unanimous that the Fed would cut the federal funds rate, which acts as a benchmark for other borrowing rates in the economy, by a quarter-point.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Michigan Shipwreck Research Association That discovery was announced just weeks after the 1886 wreck of the steamship Milwaukee was found more than 350 feet below the surface in Lake Michigan.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The expedition team's next target using the Hydrus technology is the wreck of the luxury passenger steamship SS Koombana, which disappeared somewhere off Port Hedland en route to Broome during a tropical cyclone in 1912, with 150 on board presumed to have perished.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019

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