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Recent Examples of aircraft carrier
The president visits aircraft carrier to celebrate the Navy's 250th anniversary.
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Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
The colorful artwork celebrates all six branches of the U.S. armed forces and includes a tank, a rocket, planes, an aircraft carrier and giant portraits of the namesakes of the Marin-Davis American Legion Post.
—Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
President Barack Obama was known to attend basketball games, sitting courtside on multiple occasions – including the first-ever college basketball game played on an aircraft carrier – and attended multiple baseball games as well.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
The damage was so bad the Navy later sold the mini-aircraft carrier for scrap.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
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Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
The colorful artwork celebrates all six branches of the U.S. armed forces and includes a tank, a rocket, planes, an aircraft carrier and giant portraits of the namesakes of the Marin-Davis American Legion Post.
—Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
President Barack Obama was known to attend basketball games, sitting courtside on multiple occasions – including the first-ever college basketball game played on an aircraft carrier – and attended multiple baseball games as well.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
The damage was so bad the Navy later sold the mini-aircraft carrier for scrap.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aircraft carrier
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A number of ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, with 2,000-year-old Roman terracotta jars found in the remains of a ship found off the coast of Italy in 2023, a Greek merchant ship discovered in 2018 off the Bulgarian coast and dozens more.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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However, a direct trip to Mars would require vast amounts of fuel, so SpaceX plans to use in-orbit refueling, where multiple tanker Starships transfer propellant to a main vehicle before departure.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.—
James Stavridis,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
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Visitors can float downstream in engineless watercraft or hike through the six ecosystems that converge on the river.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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Autonomous boats, ships, submarines, and miscellaneous watercraft for naval service have been popping with a certain regularity in recent years, with many of them retrofitted into commercial hulls or built along the lines of conventional warships.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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Instead, Priester left a cutter over the heart of the plate and Crow-Armstrong pulled it on a line to right.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Behind your curious browsing is one bobbed and bleary-eyed writer searching for the best October Prime Day deals with a ferocity known only to coupon-cutters.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
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Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The most radical change has been the launch of GoldBod, which sets gold prices, issues licenses to domestic traders, provides equipment and training to artisanal miners, and is the only entity allowed to sell gold for export.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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As traders try to assess whether the trade spat will escalate, stocks are fluctuating and pausing their months-long ascent.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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This is my mother’s story that cannot be deleted, this is her legit experiences on steamship of American democracy.—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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