dory
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Everybody thought we were lying - this place was all hunky dory.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
You can’t build community trust when everything’s hunky dory.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
While everything has seemed hunky dory so far for England, Denmark have been powered partly by the strength drawn from their traumatic start to the tournament.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2021
Not that everything between those two is hunky dory.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2021
He shoved the dory out stern first into the New Meadows and noticed how choppy it had become, with even some whitecaps tumbling between him and Malaga.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Built in 1847, the brightly painted house we had booked for a full week was known as Dory Buff, in honor of the traditional yellowish hue of Newfoundland fishing dories.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Bassi’s grandfather fished halibut back when schooners carried small dories out to the fishing grounds, which made the landing of a fish that can grow to 500 pounds all the more exciting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Others climbed aboard the hulls of overturned dories to replace planks.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2015
Instead of Hopper’s dories, though, a lone sloop glided by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2015
The other men had gone back to swabbing out the dories, stacking them neatly one inside the next.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The Boys in the Boat
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