dock
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I was idling through a no-wake zone near Holden Beach, N.C., on my way to the fueling dock when some joker in a sportfishing boat yelled out, “Hey, man, what’d ya pay for that thing?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Roz and I looked down from the dock and pondered how to get aboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
However, its most high-profile current case concerns ex-Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, the first former Asian head of state to stand in the ICC dock.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
O'Lali appeared in the dock alongside four other defendants in the case - three men and a woman, his partner Emma McCune, with whom he shares a six-month-old child.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Nighthand leaped heavily onto the dock and used his good arm to loop the boat’s rope around a hoop set into the stone.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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