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Recent Examples of lifeboat
Out of the ship's 132 passengers and crew, 114 people died – and the few people who survived the wreck were stuck in a lifeboat for a week.
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Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
Four crew members were stranded in a lifeboat for 19 days, rescued only after three of them had killed and eaten the fourth.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Al was the one-man lifeboat when the Warriors were terrible and terribly run.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Over the next 308 days, the men faced starvation and frostbite as Shackleton recruited five crew members to make the treacherous journey in a lifeboat to seek help on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
Four crew members were stranded in a lifeboat for 19 days, rescued only after three of them had killed and eaten the fourth.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Al was the one-man lifeboat when the Warriors were terrible and terribly run.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Over the next 308 days, the men faced starvation and frostbite as Shackleton recruited five crew members to make the treacherous journey in a lifeboat to seek help on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeboat
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Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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From medieval sailors buried beneath the cobblestone streets in Visby to the ruins of Norse shipyards where longboats were built 1,000 years ago, ancient maritime lore suffuses the island.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2024
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Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
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The crew had no time to gather their possessions or weather gear before boarding their small yawl boat, and the ship sank so quickly that a Newfoundland that served as her mascot was unable to escape.Christopher Clough, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
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Supplies for the season are brought in via a massive barge from Vancouver while fresh produce is brought in weekly.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Sugano also throws a cutter, slider, splitter, sinker and curve.Chuck Murr, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The pair of figures came into and out of focus; in some passages the surface had hyper-similitude, in others a rougher, grooved surface, betraying the involvement of a CNC cutter.Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Columnist Jenn Harris, with tasting assistance from deputy food editor Betty Hallock, went to 11 different fast food restaurants to sample and rank chicken tenders.Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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The basic menu offerings include: Chicken tenders (which can be paired with a four-sauce sampling flight) Toasted Hawaiian rolls Crinkle cut fries Coleslaw EZ Crispy Sandwich Spicy Queso Crunch Sandwich Chocolate mousse cake Key lime cake What are the 11 sauces available at KFC\'S Saucy?Mary Walrath-Holdridge, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2024
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Dan Campbell — one of the biggest riverboat gamblers the league has ever seen — opted to go for it.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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The space was originally built as the Union Gospel Tabernacle by Captain Thomas G. Ryman, a Tennessean riverboat captain and businessman.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2024
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The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the US Air Force and nonprofit organization.Michelle Watson, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
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But the party did not give to its own Black auxiliary: the African American Caucus of Mecklenburg County. Between the lines: The party officers and the African American Caucus of Mecklenburg County do not have a functioning relationship, Axios learned through speaking with board members.Alexandria Sands, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
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While other Time Warner executives would show more ambition in public, Parsons kept things on an even keel.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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However, logistics employment has managed to stay on an even keel even as companies like FedEx, UPS and DHL make their cuts.Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Lifeboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeboat. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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