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ship

[ship] / ʃɪp /


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One of my kids worried aloud that the ship might be “stuck” in the ocean.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

“The German zeppelins,” Ms. Katz writes, “began as a character in the hopeful story of the 1930s . . . the ship of dreams with the power to connect the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

At the project in Esbjerg in the south west of Denmark, carbon captured from around the country arrives in huge zeppelin-like tanks before being pumped into a ship called Carbon Destroyer 1.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

In addition to posters, album covers, clothing and household goods, Max’s art has appeared on a Boeing 777 airplane and a Norwegian Cruise Line ship.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

He had tears in his eyes, tears like Da’s the day he left us for the ship, and tears like Maggie’s when she set out.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

His parents shipped him off to an all-boys, religious high school at 14 near Napa, where he trained to become a member of the Christian Brothers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Customs and Border Protection officers at the port of Cincinnati identified roughly 5,000 shipments of unapproved peptides, including retatrutide, shipped through large cartons.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

It’s distilled and matured in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but then shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the U.S. for distribution to American customers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

The lobster industry in both Canada and the US are heavily dependent on the other, with American-caught lobster often sent to north to be processed before it is shipped back to the US and sold.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

I haven’t touched snow since the first time my mom shipped me off to a top-of-the-line treatment facility to be a guinea pig for an experimental drug to fight B. cepacia.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

But tensions flared back up later in the month after disputes over alternative shipping channels and alleged U.S. bypass moves.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

S&P Global says alternative supplies, external can mean higher crude, freight and insurance costs, while longer shipping routes add to the burden.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

However, the closure of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and the threat to shipping and infrastructure from Iran-backed Houthi militants continued to cloud the outlook for Gulf supply.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

The US military's Joint Taskforce-Micronesia told AFP the port will "expand Palau's capacity for commercial shipping and larger vessels while simultaneously enhancing the US military's logistical options for regional defence".

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Leah banished her only child, shipping Lizzie eight hundred miles away to live in Illinois with the father she barely knew.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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