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berth

[burth] / bɜrθ /




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This is their eighth playoff berth in the past nine years, a remarkable achievement considering all of their disadvantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

But Ramsdale quickly fell behind Raya in the pecking order in 2023-24 and lost his starting berth after just four league games.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

It’s worked well enough: They’re virtual locks for a National League wild-card berth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

It marked the Dodgers’ 14th straight playoff berth, tying a record set by the Atlanta Braves from 1991 to 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Because of his high score, Gligoric was already assured a berth in the Candidates, so he could easily offer Fischer an early “grandmaster draw” and coast to a successful denouement.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Satellites can help identify ships at berths in the Gulf and then in areas beyond the strait where ship-to-ship transfers occur.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The Premier League secured one of the two berths for 2026-27 after Arsenal won 1-0 at Sporting on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Attacks targeted Iraq’s Majnoon oilfield and a tanker near Fujairah, U.A.E., leading to the suspension of loading berths.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Five teams from the section have received berths in the highest division over the last 14 years, but none since Fairfax in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Now Fifth Harbor offered berths to mercher ships, as well as boats from all over the world carrying tourists and soldiers eager to see the sights and sample the pleasures of Ketterdam.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Instead, testing was carried out while berthed in Brodick, which found the engines seemed to work satisfactorily on gas, albeit with some abnormal gas flow readings.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

While rain battered Manhattan during Memorial Day weekend, more than 1,400 people packed into the hangar deck of the USS Intrepid, a World War II aircraft carrier permanently berthed at Midtown Manhattan’s Pier 86.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Each “Book” occupies one side of a long bilateral vitrine, which commands the narrow gallery like a berthed aircraft carrier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

The ship Mississippi was berthed at Terminal G when the containers mysteriously fell into the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Tristran was given a berth with Oddness, the first mate, a quiet gentleman with large wings and a bad stammer, while Yvaine berthed in Meggot's cabin, and Meggot herself moved into a hammock.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

CalMac, which is also owned by the Scottish government, will now spend six-and-a-half weeks conducting crew familiarisation and harbour berthing trials.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

While electrification at the berthing docks is already underway in Seattle, grant programs in the legislation will support further electrification and the transition from diesel-powered machinery, not just in Washington but around the country.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

CalMac plans to initially conduct sea and berthing trials before deploying MV Alfred on its routes, so no bookings or services have been affected.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2023

Turkey's Ceyhan port was ready to resume Iraqi crude oil loadings from storage on Tuesday, but bad weather was preventing vessels from berthing, a trade source with direct knowledge said.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023

As desperate diseases are sometimes combated with desperate remedies, so in her desperate condition the hazardous and almost hopeless expedient of berthing her alongside one of the edges of the floe might have been attempted.

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Gordon Browne




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