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yacht

[yot] / jɒt /


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Kim's much smaller, 29-metre Princess yacht was previously estimated to be worth about $7m.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She even sought out McDonald, another yacht rock OG, for a collab that didn’t end up making the LP, which expanded beyond her original premise as her listening broadened along with her cooking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Alas, the yacht was then smoked by New Zealand’s Black Magic I.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A couple have spoken of their relief to be rescued after a sperm whale collided with their yacht.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Filipinos loved him; Marcos entertained him at the palace and on his yacht; Marcos’s wife, Imelda, dined with him at lunch; young ladies gathered around him constantly, as if he were a movie star.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. began to indict Russian oligarchs and seize yachts and other assets.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Gibson, from Penbryn Nant, in Ruthin, Denbighshire, lied that he had been worth hundreds of millions of pounds, had served in the Special Boat Service, and owned yachts.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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

Navy destroyer and two coast guard cutters had taken up positions among the usual flotilla of yachts, sailboats, launches, dinghies, and canoes assembling near the finish line.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

It didn't occasion any loud comments from nobility or clergy when the King yachted to Yugoslavia with Mrs. Simpson.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"Yes, I yachted along the coast from Bar Harbor to Portland one summer."

From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham

According to the account of solo sailing that Cole Brauer gives in her memoir, “First Light,” the internet has become an integral part of long-haul yachting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A yachting incident intensified the rivalry between Turner and Murdoch in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner's in the Sydney-Hobart race, sinking Turner's schooner.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

In the interim, Ford pursued other interests, including yachting, a hobby she picked in 2023 that birthed ideas for Yacht Yoga and other female empowerment gatherings of the Yacht Girls.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald


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