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yacht

[yot] / jɒt /


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She even sought out McDonald, another yacht rock OG, for a collab that didn’t end up making the LP, which expanded beyond her original premise as her listening broadened along with her cooking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

RH, the former Restoration Hardware, has a yacht available for charter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

On a recent Friday evening at a Westchester yacht club, roughly a dozen choppers flew by in a two-hour stretch as members sipped rum cocktails on a waterside deck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

At 09.30 the lifeboat crew "successfully freed the yacht from the fish farm and brought the sailors safely to Glenarm".

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

A schooner, a catamaran freighter, and a yacht, all of them lying across a bridge at a separate dock.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Speed boats and yachts dock along the pier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Over the years, however, Xu's taste for yachts and luxury clashed with President Xi Jinping's crackdown on extreme wealth as Beijing tightened its watch over corruption within the financial sector.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

He has appeared in countless videos, flaunting an ultra-luxurious lifestyle of fast cars, private jets, and yachts.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Reuben had cleared the coastal marinas of their sailboats and yachts and dragged them five miles inland and dumped them on their sides in parking lots.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia.

From Time Magazine Archive

She may repeat the furore created when King George's mother, Denmark's radiant Alexandra, was similarly yachted to Britain to marry the future Edward VII.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, he's dined at the White House, and lunched and motored and yachted with royalties, and lectured before the D.A.R.'s themselves!

From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler

According to the account of solo sailing that Cole Brauer gives in her memoir, “First Light,” the internet has become an integral part of long-haul yachting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The pair have been photographed yachting in St. Tropez, holding hands in London and attending the premiere of the “Legally Blonde” prequel “Elle.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

A yachting incident intensified the rivalry between Turner and Murdoch in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner's in the Sydney-Hobart race, sinking Turner's schooner.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

While the furniture and housing industries also use old-growth teak, they have generally found it easier to substitute plantation teak than the yachting industry, he adds.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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