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ferry

[fer-ee] / ˈfɛr i /
NOUN
transportation boat
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To avoid transportation hassles around the city, they also rented two double-decker tour buses to ferry guests from the ceremony to the reception.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026

They are Dover's ferry port, Eurotunnel's Folkestone terminal, and Eurostar's St Pancras rail terminus.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

The mass raid also killed one person on a ferry and hit an oil terminal in Russia's southern Krasnodar region bordering Crimea, the authorities there said.

From Barron's • Jun. 21, 2026

Many of the Very Large Crude Carriers, or VLCCs, that ferry 2 million barrels at a time across oceans have been repurposed to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

I sighed and put down my book and said with greatly exaggerated patience, “The ferry is due about four, Grandma.”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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