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Recent Examples of whaler
In late July, a whaler reported seeing the ships in Baffin Bay.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
By 1899, Provincetown was home to a small population of New Englanders, who had displaced the Wampanoag and Nauset tribes, and to Portuguese immigrants working as whalers and fishermen.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
An early member of Greenpeace, Watson went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmental group famous for tracking, exposing and occasionally ramming Japanese whalers.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The original focus—dramatic campaigns against whalers and seal hunters operating under the flags of nations like Japan—is giving way to an emphasis on fisheries protection in cooperation with governments.
—Andrew Blue Sky, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
By 1899, Provincetown was home to a small population of New Englanders, who had displaced the Wampanoag and Nauset tribes, and to Portuguese immigrants working as whalers and fishermen.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
An early member of Greenpeace, Watson went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmental group famous for tracking, exposing and occasionally ramming Japanese whalers.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The original focus—dramatic campaigns against whalers and seal hunters operating under the flags of nations like Japan—is giving way to an emphasis on fisheries protection in cooperation with governments.
—Andrew Blue Sky, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whaler
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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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On Thursday, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the core PCE price index, was still above central bankers’ 2% inflation target in September but roughly in-line with estimates and pretty steady for the past five months.Zev Fima, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
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Meet with investment bankers to understand market dynamics.Marc Emmer, Forbes, 1 Nov. 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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While ferries don't have the same charging requirements as heavier ships, many companies are building redundancies into their crafts to ensure longer trips and less time at the charging station: Many ferries are powered by both batteries and diesel engines that can be used to offset one another.Leah Carroll, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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After a ferry delivered him to Oakland, Muir set out on foot and walked some 300 miles to Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2024
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Those bank documents helped federal prosecutors bring a criminal case in California about unpaid taxes on cash Biden used to fund drugs and hookers.Philip Elliott, TIME, 7 Sep. 2024
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s is about someone who’s just about scraping a living as a hooker.Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2024
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But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, couldn't sell shrimp during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed for unemployment benefits.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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Do the foot draggers in the legislature not know or understand the present and future risk?Staff report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
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Over the past week Germany, the perennial foot-dragger, has done what the U.S. has spent decades politely asking it to do: begin to disconnect its energy sector from the Russian grid and commit to spending seriously on its own defense.Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
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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
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“Whaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whaler. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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