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berth

[burth] / bɜrθ /




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But there is a wide berth of procedures between emergency and truly elective, leaving people in need of things like ACL tear repairs or minimally invasive heart procedures, where delaying could pose health risks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

But those resources have bought just one playoff berth and one winning season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

With the victory, worth $4.20 to his backers and $600,000 to owners Godolphin, Knightsbridge earned an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

"Normally there's a queue, even out at sea, waiting for a berth."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Kyle ignored Chiltington and grabbed hold of the ledge beneath Dr. Seuss’s berth.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

Loading berths at the Fujairah tanker terminal were suspended, the port and marine management company Inchcape Shipping Services said in a note early Tuesday.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 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

In the sleeping cars, however, where the porter was already making up some of the berths, there was trouble.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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

But just around the corner, berthed where no-one can take pictures, is a group of military vessels.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2025

Beginning in 1903, it was berthed in Venice, if you can say “berthed” about a vessel that wasn’t a real ship.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

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

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

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

Whichever it was with Buchanan, he insisted on berthing for the night in Porter's occupied nest, while the latter, after standing the all-round chaff for a little, got savage and threatened war.

From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth




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