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buoy

[boo-ee, boi] / ˈbu i, bɔɪ /
NOUN
floating device
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Buoy entertained at games while Davy quietly drew back from public life.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

The Mariner Moose and the Seattle Kraken’s mascot, Buoy, harnessed up and climbed the scaffolding erected to paint the first brushstrokes of white.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

Do you carry a stuffed Buoy around the arena that is almost as big as you are?

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

“This is the most significant change the array has undergone,” says Karen Grissom, an oceanographer at NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center, which runs TAO.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 28, 2023

The day being fine, with a fair wind from the N.N.E., the Proserpine's course was steered for the Red Buoy, where she anchored for the night.

From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by Gilly, William O. S.




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