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But giving this absolute unit a wide berth has become more challenging as his viral fame grows, because humans keep crowding Neil, getting dangerously close and perhaps forgetting that he is a wild animal.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Aside from defined doctrine such as the creed or the evil of abortion, there is a wide berth for opinion on social issues—labor, immigration and war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

"I think they can achieve a lot. I think a quarter-final berth would be expected at this stage," said 43-year-old fan Eric Gordon, attending with his young nephew Oliver.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Frimpong arrived from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee of £29.5m and was expected to share the right-back berth with Conor Bradley following the departure of Trent Alexander-Arnold.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

While the other Howard horses filed onto standard horse-class cars, Seabiscuit had earned himself a luxury berth: a full end of a specially modified private Pullman railcar.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

That in itself is not an unusual number, as ships routinely wait their turn to load or unload at port berths in the region.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

Port director Bethann Rooney said terminal lease extensions require that tenants increase a terminal’s capacity by modernizing chokepoints such as ship berths, container yards and truck gates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

The first two teams in the regular-season standings are guaranteed Southern Section playoff berths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Our berths couldn’t be made up, and no one in the same car with us got much sleep.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

Then just after 10 p.m. on July 17, 1944, there was a massive explosion of munitions while the SS Quinault Victory and SS E. A. Bryan were berthed at the pier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

The beet-wagon driver had taken her where the fishing boats berthed, for those were the very first boats to leave Saint Petersburg each day.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

HM Coastguard said the salvage of Solong had progressed to enable its relocation to Aberdeen for safe berthing.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

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

Portland Port previously said berthing the migrant barge is the right thing to do.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

The rising or working up of the planks of a ship's sides; as berthing up a bulk-head, or bringing up in general.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir