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anchor

[ang-ker] / ˈæŋ kər /




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Overnight, on 30 and 31 July, the vessel slipped anchor and its crew made the 140-mile journey to open sea.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

A growing faction of affluent, older New Yorkers who have left the city are buying second properties back home to anchor themselves to elite medical specialists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Dominion’s Virginia operations are the anchor; Virginia is the world’s largest data center market, and Dominion is the utility keeping it all running.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

As a child growing up in Connecticut, Kathan recalls watching Douglas Edwards, the “World News Roundup” evening anchor for two decades, doing TV news updates in between the soap operas his mother watched on CBS.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

She passed the Eliza, that had sailed six days before the Putnam weighed anchor.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham




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