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dock

noun as in waterfront

verb as in land on the waterfront

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This was how New Yorkers greeted Nikita Khrushchev as his ship docked at a Manhattan pier a month after Frank Powers’s trial in Moscow.

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He was still to blame for the war, and once the victors decided to put him in the dock for that his fate was clear.

The accused stood in the dock and replied "yes" when asked if he understood the charges against him.

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Its high-margin ship-repair segment offers steady earnings, underpinned by structural tailwinds from an ageing global fleet and upcoming third floating dock.

The dock collapses when the river floods, and pirate attacks have become common as drug traffickers push deeper into the Amazon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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