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[boht] / boʊt /


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When rescue crews arrived, no boat was in the area and more than a dozen people were in the water, said U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cordoba described one common route: A fishing boat heads north close to the Colombian coast and crosses into Panama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

And it was much better than being on a boat in a storm, and much, much better than being on a boat in a storm when you don’t know the storm is coming.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Australia's military uses the small uncrewed boats to quietly surveil its vast northern coastline, powered by a solar mast and wind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“If we can help Taiwan build thousands of these autonomous boats, it could protect Taiwan,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

In time they had children and grandchildren who also learned to fish and build boats, and their families prospered in Trokorpe.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

The film shifts to black and white as the action moves inside a building less adorned than the ones the man has boated past, but grand, even so.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

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

PWCs are to safe boating what mullets are to haircuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

The man and the family he was friends with had reportedly been on a boating trip at the time.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

“Scarlet and gray boating suit, good enough for me. I shall row and tramp about, so I don’t want any starch to think of. You’ll come, Betty?”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott


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