as in boat
a large craft for travel by water
a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean
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as in to send
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
we shipped those books out yesterday
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Recent Examples of ship
Jake Sullivan, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025
Someone needs to take control of the situation and keep this ship afloat.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
The majority of the store’s freezers are stocked with perishable foods, such as habanero peppers from Nigeria packaged in one-quart Ziploc freezer bags and sold for $5 per pack, as well as meats and vegetables shipped transatlantically from various regions across the African diaspora.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
This includes making investments in submarines and ships; enhancing manufacturing capacity for missiles, artillery, and air defense; and taking steps to leverage and unleash the potential of innovative technologies.
—Jake Sullivan, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025
Someone needs to take control of the situation and keep this ship afloat.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
That means trading pending free agents for future picks and prospects is in play, especially since the Rangers have shipped away many of their mid-round picks as buyers in recent years.
—Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
The majority of the store’s freezers are stocked with perishable foods, such as habanero peppers from Nigeria packaged in one-quart Ziploc freezer bags and sold for $5 per pack, as well as meats and vegetables shipped transatlantically from various regions across the African diaspora.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ship
Noun
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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
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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
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In a recent episode, a viewer sent Zarco her Mimi’s lemon squares recipe from 1992, along with a note and some fabulous photos of her relative.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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Several sent representatives to celebrate the Evanston ordinance’s five year anniversary in December.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Early morning Friday, shelter staff and animal control officers transported pet crates loaded with dogs and cats to Gillespie Field, where they were then carried across the tarmac and placed on the plane.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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The six-episode Western drama written and created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, follows the journey of Sara (Betty Gilpin), a woman on the run, who seeks out a guide at Fort Bridger in Wyoming to assist her in transporting her young son Devin (Preston Mota) to his father in Missouri.—
Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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The world now faces converging threats: China is carrying out the largest peacetime military buildup since Nazi Germany’s, producing warships, combat aircraft, and missiles five to six times as fast as the United States can.—
Michael Beckley,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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In 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, the U.S. warship the Vincennes shot down an Iran Air flight over the Gulf, killing all 290 people on board.—
Nailia Bagirova and Gleb Stolaryov,
USA TODAY,
27 Dec. 2024
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All seven crew members aboard the freighter were Chinese nationals, the Taiwan coast guard said.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Freight can be moved by coastal freighters and barges.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ship. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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