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[boht] / boʊt /


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We don’t have a boat or a club membership, and a big night out is the Italian place three miles from home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Royal Navy said one of Rice's close encounters was a torpedo being fired towards the boat he was on, only for the missile to go beneath the hull.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen with 350 people on board, when it capsized near the port town of Obock on Thursday night.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"No one gets into a boat like that unless they believe there is no other safe way," said IOM Director General Amy Pope in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

It felt like a lifetime ago that Regan’s mom had walked us out of those doors and onto the boat that would take us to the mountain.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

One of the beefs homeowners have with PWCs—and so called “wake boats”—is that the waves they generate can slam moored boats into docks and erode shorelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"These hearing tests give us that baseline and allow us to start asking how noises from ships, boats, aircraft and coastal construction might affect seals and sea lions."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

These humpback whales, they’re right underneath these tiny little boats, and if they wanted to, they could just flick their tail, and you’d be off in the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Anduril’s new facility could add nine million labor hours a year to the Virginia-class industrial base, a 15% boost that should relieve other facilities and help put the boats together faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was pretty much the same as all the other fishing boats, except for the turtle he’d painted on the side.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Authorities are trying to learn how the perpetrator gained access to the beach, including whether they boated over from the other side of the lake, investigators have said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

This summer, ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across Rubkona County, the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak and home to the country’s largest refugee camp, to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

"Nowadays it has to be boated off. It's just not realistic at all. But it captures everyone's imagination."

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

She took ballet; played basketball with her mother, brother and cousins; and boated and swam in the sea on weekends.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

With the Marine Jungschar, the naval branch of the Hitler Youth, Herbert boated on the waters in Tetlow Park in eastern Berlin.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Studland Bay Marine Partnership is made up of conservation charities, boating organisations, academics, statutory bodies, community groups and businesses, with the aim of restoring Studland's seagrass.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ms. Brauer, a scrappy, dyslexic young woman from a working-class Long Island, N.Y., family, discovered boating in college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When she feels up to it, they go boating or ride bicycles to nearby beaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Residents of the city, which is nestled in the Appalachian foothills with the Tennessee River running through the heart of a lively downtown, enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, biking and boating.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

He planned a boating trip, and Ifemelu thought he should have some time alone with Morgan.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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