boat
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She allegedly appeared to be using the controls as if she was trying to steal the boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
At her bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack in Cox's Bazar, Begum says her dreams of freedom sank with the boat.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Earlier this year, 14 people lost their lives when their boat capsized in Gumbi, Kebbi state.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Admire the classic and modern boats in the port, or sign up for an excursion with Bateaux Verts, which offers ferry rides and boat trips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
And the bigger the hole got, the faster the boat sank, as if it were tired of being a boat and wanted to try being a submarine.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
As dawn breaks over Ghana's Atlantic coast, artisanal fishing boats return to shore with last night's catch -- baskets of snapper, crabs, rays and a distinct-looking fish locals call "esene".
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The spokesperson said she owns a houseboat near the boats she boarded in Sausalito and, not being of sound mind, believed she was on a vessel she owned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Beijing said the Philippines instigated the incident by sending men in small rubber boats to approach their vessel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
On stretches of waterfront, people linger in boats, kayaks and pool floats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anybody who’s rowed one of these boats knows you’re supposed to face backward.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
This summer, ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across Rubkona County, the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak and home to the country’s largest refugee camp, to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Before co-founding Arc with fellow Northwestern alum Ryan Cook, Lee grew up in the Bay Area and frequently boated with his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
"Nowadays it has to be boated off. It's just not realistic at all. But it captures everyone's imagination."
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
The film shifts to black and white as the action moves inside a building less adorned than the ones the man has boated past, but grand, even so.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
With the Marine Jungschar, the naval branch of the Hitler Youth, Herbert boated on the waters in Tetlow Park in eastern Berlin.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
They work remotely and came together for a few days of activities that included painting, pedal boating and navigating a ropes course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Among the volunteers turned out to help with the project included Judy Saunders, who used the brook's boating pond regularly as a child in the 1960s.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
And on top of that: fishing, boating, mineral extraction, and protection from underground toxins that could blanket Utah’s most heavily populated area and drive everyone away—not just from Box Elder, but from the state altogether.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
An avid outdoorsman, Webb managed a farm and hunting lodge and enjoyed offshore fishing and boating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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