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Recent Examples of keel
Noun
Intelligence unmoored from values is no better than a ship without a keel, charting courses without regard to consequence. Hamilton Mann, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024 But keeping an even keel, and sticking with the plan even after taking a fist to the nose, has been working so far. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
Otherwise healthy workers keel over at their desks after a long stretch of overtime or after consummating a high-pressure deal, usually from a stroke or heart attack. Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Pewaukee can keel it out and will do so. Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for keel 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for keel
Noun
  • Guests on the Abercrombie & Kent Adriatic Voyage, which features ports of call in Croatia, Montenegro, and Greece, can ride aboard the largest ship able to navigate the Corinth Canal.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2025
  • If Trump does implement steeper tariffs on Canadian goods, McCain could shift even more of its production to the U.S. Suppliers could jump ship to a U.S. rival like Lamb Weston.
    Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • That are easy to hold during runs, collapse totally flat for travel, and come with straws for sipping?
    Alexis Berger, SELF, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Six months later, his rating had collapsed, to just 40 percent.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Lifeguards swam out on paddle boards and used rescue boats to retrieve people from the water.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His boat was a half mile off the port of Bermagui in New South Wales when sonar used for finding fish picked up the image.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Image On a table in a downstairs corner room that Commandant Höss used as a home office lies a heap of torn and crumpled Nazi-era newspapers and other wartime artifacts found after the house was sold.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The back half of the car is crumpled in on itself, the windows are shattered and the patrol car was physically turned off the road by the force of the crash.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sweeping sanctions by the U.S. against Russia’s energy companies and operators of vessels that transport oil will complicate Indian efforts to keep importing cheap Russian crude and could push up inflation in Asia’s third-largest economy, analysts said.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
  • As of January 17, the locations of 12 vessels were publicly available via military disclosures, as well as open-source imagery captured by satellites or ship-spotters.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Hailey Bieber just took the office siren look out of the boardroom and plopped it right on the slopes of Aspen.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Heaps smiled at all that has plopped on his plate in his 30s.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In his final start of 2018, Sabathia plunked Tampa Bay’s Jesus Sucre in response to the Rays’ Andrew Kittredge throwing behind Austin Romine earlier in the game.
    Peter Sblendorio, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • An opposing hitter was plunked and Collins knew the other team would retaliate.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The 10-year slipped from a high near 4.8% back to 4.6% over a few days.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In the quarter, Apple slipped to third place — with about a sixth of the market, according to a Counterpoint research featured by Bloomberg.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Keel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keel. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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