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as in to haul
to support and take from one place to another
there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground
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Recent Examples of ferry
Jackie Wattles, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
Crews then ferried the cable pieces to Tahoe Keys Marina, loaded them onto trucks and drove them to a recycling facility.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Sydney Harbour taking in the Harbour Bridge, Opera House and ferries at sunrise during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 20, 2020 in Sydney, Australia.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Isaacman would also likely preside over the review and certification of SpaceX’s Starship, the gargantuan rocket and spacecraft system that NASA plans to use to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface under its Artemis program.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
Crews then ferried the cable pieces to Tahoe Keys Marina, loaded them onto trucks and drove them to a recycling facility.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
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Authorities also ordered 90 ferries to remain docked and closed hundreds of hiking trails.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Sydney Harbour taking in the Harbour Bridge, Opera House and ferries at sunrise during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 20, 2020 in Sydney, Australia.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Food challenges have generated different types of innovation: Instead of hauling agricultural waste to decompose in the dump, why not create a harvester-style robot that can process it into carbon-sequestering, soil-enriching biochar?Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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Their mothers will haul them around on their backs.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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That ship was allowed to sail into international waters before the authorities could investigate.Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Similarly, Hwang Jun-ho is doing the same thing, sailing around trying to find the island to reunite with his brother (who is in fact, the Front Man).Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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All three victims were transported to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead, prosecutors said.Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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The vehicle was then transported back to Connecticut for resale on Facebook Marketplace, according to court records.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
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This native Austinite lost his right arm and leg in a boating accident.Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Dec. 2024
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The top activities at the national level are boating and fishing and RVing, while the fastest-growing are bicycling, snow sports and hunting.John Frank, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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As a result, Tokyo has begun to loosen some of its foreign labor laws, expanding the number of job categories eligible for medium- and long-term visas, and even offering taxi driver license exams in multiple languages.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Catch up quick: After sinking nearly 10 years and about $10 billion into developing a driverless taxi business, GM decided to refocus Cruise's technology toward building autonomous tech into GM's personal car business.Hope King, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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Virginians licensed to carry, for example, can’t also carry in neighboring Washington, D.C., and Maryland.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
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The bad luck didn’t end there: Signa, his partner in the Chrysler and one of the largest real-estate investors in Europe, went into bankruptcy last November, leaving RFR to carry the property financially.Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
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While critics continue to push for improvements to the city’s subway system, users say the gondolas feel safer than local buses and are transforming neighborhoods.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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Top of the must-revisit list include the Sundial, Nita Lake Lodge, the Four Seasons and the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, the latter two located in the more chill Upper Village near the Blackcomb gondola.Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Ferry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferry. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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