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Recent Examples of seiner
Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings.
—Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
By Six Seiners Sharon said she was nearly run down by six seiners while coming down the coast from Point Arguello.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
Take a scenic drive along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up with their catch.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
Anyone who has ever worked aboard a seiner has horror stories of close calls, or worse.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings.
—Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
By Six Seiners Sharon said she was nearly run down by six seiners while coming down the coast from Point Arguello.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
Take a scenic drive along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up with their catch.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
Anyone who has ever worked aboard a seiner has horror stories of close calls, or worse.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seiner
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But based on the financial success of its previous voyages in search of sperm oil—a high-quality lighting oil derived from the spermaceti organ in the head of the sperm whale—it was considered a desirable, even lucky, ship by local whalers.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
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Prioritize The Banker Relationship Choosing the right bank is less about choosing a bank and more about choosing the right banker relationship.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Harry now works in business as an investment banker.Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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The Olympic Peninsula to British Columbia Walking & Hiking Tour offers the chance to watch seabirds, whales, and other marine life by shore and sea, on ferries, in kayaks, and from waterfront hotels.Everett Potter, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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There, on the ferry, was a labourer eating oysters using a jack knife taken from his pocket, tossing shell after shell overboard.Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
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According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1. Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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The 18 course tasting menu comes as a series of tiny plates, with snow crab from Norway, squid from the West coast, a bye-catch from the shrimp trawlers’ nets, and bleak roe from Lake Mälaren.Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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On Wednesday, trawlers dragged nets to collect the fish that were then dumped in the back of trucks.Fox News, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
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Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
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The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
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“Seiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seiner. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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