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Recent Examples of lightship
Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Longreads, 4 May 2023
All this means that the charming Bajoran lightship that Captain Sisko builds on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicted in the show as a medieval construction of metal and wood, is only feasible if the Bajoran sun were powerful enough to probably incinerate the entire space station in the first place.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2020
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
—oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form).
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
The lightship is safely docked in the water, only minutes away from the city center.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
The couple, along with their two children, also live on the ship, according to the lightship’s website.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
Shopping and sightseeing go hand-in-hand; galleries showcase local artists, boutiques sell high style and resort casual attire, emporiums carry distinctive lightship baskets.
—Danica Farley, Orange County Register, 17 July 2019
Former Massachusetts State Senator Bill Golden is selling his Nantucket lightship for $5.2 million.
—Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
Longreads, 4 May 2023
All this means that the charming Bajoran lightship that Captain Sisko builds on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicted in the show as a medieval construction of metal and wood, is only feasible if the Bajoran sun were powerful enough to probably incinerate the entire space station in the first place.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2020
Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar.
—oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form).
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
The lightship is safely docked in the water, only minutes away from the city center.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
The couple, along with their two children, also live on the ship, according to the lightship’s website.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020
Shopping and sightseeing go hand-in-hand; galleries showcase local artists, boutiques sell high style and resort casual attire, emporiums carry distinctive lightship baskets.
—Danica Farley, Orange County Register, 17 July 2019
Former Massachusetts State Senator Bill Golden is selling his Nantucket lightship for $5.2 million.
—Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightship
Noun
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The twentieth-century struggle for African independence began in Paris salons hosted by the daughters of elite blacks, then travelled by telegram and steamship.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Last fall Vineyard Theatre premiered the Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar, on a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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On Saturday, dozens of spectators and journalists watched the tugs maneuver the barge into place while police kept boaters away from the site.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Many of these come with steamers or colanders for draining pasta water.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2025
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The steamer has yet to confirm a release date for KPopped.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2025
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The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
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What's next: Sens. Mike Lee and John Curtis, both Utah Republicans, want the option to build warships and major components overseas, in NATO countries and friendly Indo-Pacific areas (think Japan or South Korea).—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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At the same time, Chinese warships have been sighted near Vietnam and Taiwan, part of a show of Chinese naval strength in the Pacific region that regularly rattles US allies.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN,
6 Mar. 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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Chambers says oral history, passed on by Koh Samui locals, states the tanker was torpedoed by a submarine.—
Ronan O'Connell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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All tanker vessels will need to comply to reduce emissions in California ports by the beginning of 2027.—
Katie Fehrenbacher,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Feb. 2024
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This particular pearl collier can be spotted on Hepburn’s neck in the final scene of Roman Holiday.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 2023
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“Lightship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightship. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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