yacht
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The fourth victim, a retired super yacht captain known as PH, invested £23,350 and said he had suffered "severe" emotional impact.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was Cecil Wright that brought the yacht to Storonsky’s attention and introduced the Revolut co-founder and Dovigi, the broker says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Going to Babble On” has a quicker pulse with guitars that chug, and its vibe has the melodic ease of the early-’80s pop style sometimes called yacht rock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Domenick Yazzolino, reported that authorities got a call about a burglary and found Forbes inside a yacht that didn’t belong to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
I find myself halfway down the gangway, just a few feet from the yacht.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Speed boats and yachts dock along the pier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Over the years, however, Xu's taste for yachts and luxury clashed with President Xi Jinping's crackdown on extreme wealth as Beijing tightened its watch over corruption within the financial sector.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The public official is accused of lodging without permission on two docked yachts that did not belong to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
On the lake a hundred or more ships, yachts, and launches lay at anchor with colored lights on their bows and booms and strung along their rigging.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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It didn't occasion any loud comments from nobility or clergy when the King yachted to Yugoslavia with Mrs. Simpson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She may repeat the furore created when King George's mother, Denmark's radiant Alexandra, was similarly yachted to Britain to marry the future Edward VII.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For the pleasure of astonishing the world, no sacrifice was too costly; and whether he rode, or shot, or played, or yachted, his first thought was notoriety.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
The Cryptolocker mastermind was eventually identified as Evgeniy Bogachev, a Russian national known to be fond of luxury cars and yachting on the Black Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The mustached southerner, yachting enthusiast and philanthropist, whose empire also included sports clubs, had been suffering from the degenerative disease Lewy Body Dementia.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Previous excuses for failing to file have included being up a mountain or yachting around the world.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
The two were photographed yachting together in the Pacific off El Salvador’s coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
Even as the last Americans were still passing Hitler, the first German athletes began to emerge from the tunnel, dressed in crisp white linen suits and sporting white yachting caps.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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