berth
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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
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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
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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
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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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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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