ship
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And I think also it's the perfect time to maybe... jump ship, I think is the right word.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
"We are still a bit of a pirate ship," a senior Reform figure acknowledges privately.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Douglass compared government and the Constitution to “a ship and a compass”: the latter could point correctly while the former steered wrongly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He entered and made his way toward the back of the ship, up the stairs, until he came to a room.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Huger wrote for instructions to Postmaster General Amos Kendall, as well as New York Postmaster Samuel Gouverneur, from whose office the offending literature had been shipped.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Because most fiscal 2027 units were shipped to the U.S. before enforcement took effect, “we’ll have an impact next year,” CFO Sebastien Martel says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nearly 800,000 tonnes had been shipped before exports were halted in May.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Accelerators without Nvidia’s software became obsolete within a few years as models changed, she said, while Nvidia’s own A100 chips, shipped six years ago, are still fully in use.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
They’ll be shipped across the country at the end of this month, and on April first there’s to be a special ceremony at the Science Museum in London.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
During the four weeks leading up to Aug. 28, the U.S. was on average shipping 1.77 million barrels of diesel a day, according to the Energy Information Administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
There is additional pressure from disruption to food supplies and shipping from wars and climate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The US aim was to force Iran to negotiate and to stop its attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But Danish shipping company Maersk believes it is still "too early" to "speculate" about the impact.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
There was a converted shipping container around the corner where we’d hang out when we got tired of the wall.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
