battleship
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“It’s like a gigantic battleship with a lot of barnacles that have kind of attached themselves to the ship over the years,” Jeremy Stein, a Harvard economist and former Fed governor, said of the bureaucracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"I call Walmart the battleship, and I call Aldi a kind of submarine."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The battleship was supplanted as king of the seas in the 1940s by the aircraft carrier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
The café was like a battleship stripped for action.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
However, Woodburn said there was still a role for the traditional battleships and submarines that BAE has been manufacturing for decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
FDR’s “arsenal of democracy” produced External link 10 battleships, 27 carriers, 211 submarines, and 310,000 aircraft to help win the war and establish Pax Americana.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Hegseth and Trump were frustrated by his lack of progress in implementing shipbuilding reforms to create Trump’s so-called “Golden Fleet,” led by the theoretical new “Trump-class” battleships.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
Maritime industry specialists say the ships have long been overlooked as administrations prefer to spend on more exciting vessels such as submarines and battleships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
US Navy battleships, aircraft carriers, ocean liners, oil tankers—all sorts of sea vessels were being built there.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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