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dinghy

[ding-gee] / ˈdɪŋ gi /
NOUN
boat
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The Sun leads with reports of a "dinghy flotilla in Channel", writing that the boats carried "up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Teen charged over record crossing on 'mega dinghy'

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The number on the dinghy broke the previous record from July, when 128 crossed the Channel from France on one vessel.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Chinese dissident Dong Guangping reached South Korea in a rubber dinghy after a 30-hour journey, facing immigration charges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

When we climbed into the dinghy, I tossed Abbey one of the life vests.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

More than 9,000 life jackets, dozens of dinghies and engines and 360 pumps were seized by police this spring during a joint operation involving the UK, France and Germany in the North Rhine-Westphalia region.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

On the park's website, the authority said visitors must not enter the water at any time, which includes using kayaks, canoes, paddle boards and dinghies.

From BBC May 26, 2026

The migrants were loaded into rubber dinghies, he says, and rowed halfway across the river.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Navy destroyer and two coast guard cutters had taken up positions among the usual flotilla of yachts, sailboats, launches, dinghies, and canoes assembling near the finish line.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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