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berth

[burth] / bɜrθ /




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When asked if Riley needed a Playoff berth this season, athletic director Jennifer Cohen told The Times in May she “tries not to think in hypotheticals” but added:

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Containers, in 20-foot-equivalent units, waiting to berth at ports worldwide—a new all-time congestion high—mainly because of storms in East Asia disrupting schedules, according to Linerlytica.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

"Normally there's a queue, even out at sea, waiting for a berth."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

We’ve all fallen for the blond forward who has rowed Norway to its first World Cup quarterfinal berth — and also for SoFi Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

“I thought you lived in that girls’ bathroom?” said Harry, who had been careful to give the place a wide berth for some years now.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Rigs are standing still, while oil-loading berths along the Persian Gulf are empty.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The Premier League secured one of the two berths for 2026-27 after Arsenal won 1-0 at Sporting on Tuesday.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

Loading berths at the Fujairah tanker terminal were suspended, the port and marine management company Inchcape Shipping Services said in a note early Tuesday.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

Five teams from the section have received berths in the highest division over the last 14 years, but none since Fairfax in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2026

The great ships of Boston which had been bringing wealth for over a hundred years were idle at their berths.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

While rain battered Manhattan during Memorial Day weekend, more than 1,400 people packed into the hangar deck of the USS Intrepid, a World War II aircraft carrier permanently berthed at Midtown Manhattan’s Pier 86.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Each “Book” occupies one side of a long bilateral vitrine, which commands the narrow gallery like a berthed aircraft carrier.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Port spokesperson Art Marroquin said the ship, the Mississippi, was berthed at Terminal G just before 9 a.m. when the containers mysteriously fell overboard into the water.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2025

It is currently berthed at Southampton docks, having arrived at about 08:00 from Cartagena Port in Spain.

From BBC Oct. 12, 2024

The beet-wagon driver had taken her where the fishing boats berthed, for those were the very first boats to leave Saint Petersburg each day.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Davies also told the committee that "contacts" between ferries and the berthing terminals happen "all the time" and that the terminals are "designed" to take "low-speed contact".

From BBC Mar. 6, 2025

Subject to berthing trials, MV Isle of Lewis could be redeployed to the Little Minch routes, freeing up MV Hebrides to be deployed to boost Arran services.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2024

While electrification at the berthing docks is already underway in Seattle, grant programs in the legislation will support further electrification and the transition from diesel-powered machinery, not just in Washington but around the country.

From Seattle Times Aug. 14, 2023

Turkey's Ceyhan port was ready to resume Iraqi crude oil loadings from storage on Tuesday, but bad weather was preventing vessels from berthing, a trade source with direct knowledge said.

From Reuters Feb. 7, 2023

Nor was the steward's frequent physical separation based on race; berthing was arranged by department and function aboard large vessels.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor




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