boat
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Speaking of the other sailors on the boat, he said, “I would think that the overwhelming majority would be like, Jackson, you got a cool dad.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Sunday reception was held a roughly 10-minute boat ride away on a neighboring private island, rented out by Kremlev.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Coast Guard boat crew pulled two people from the water, and San Francisco police rescued a third, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the time, the so-called "mega dinghy" set a record for the largest number of migrants brought over on a small boat in recent years.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
If a boat found its way in through the maze of the reef, Shell Beach would be the first thing it would see.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
—Southwest pilot and pilot podcast host Max Palmer, on wealthy pilots who splurge on boats, cars and planes, forgetting about past layoffs and industry crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
More than 1,600 boats or engines have been seized by the authorities since late 2023, it said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, for those looking to fish where the big boats aren’t, the survey — as always — is a great guide to the assets most out of fashion among big-money investors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
A boy from Watts stares at the ocean, imagining ancient Greek boats sailing across the Pacific and his father in a toga and sneakers, proudly hoisting a trident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She dropped them in the lake, where they bobbed and floated like small boats.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
This summer, ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across Rubkona County, the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak and home to the country’s largest refugee camp, to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
"Nowadays it has to be boated off. It's just not realistic at all. But it captures everyone's imagination."
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
The film shifts to black and white as the action moves inside a building less adorned than the ones the man has boated past, but grand, even so.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
“He has dragon boated before, so he felt kind of confident in what he was doing … It was quite fast pace, so he kept up really well.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
The sky scowled down upon us, threatening rain as we boated over to Southwark and joined the throng of bearbaiters and playgoers.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Residents of the city, which is nestled in the Appalachian foothills with the Tennessee River running through the heart of a lively downtown, enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, biking and boating.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
“We want to make sure that all of the compliance requirements are in place, because we haven’t had boating there in such a long time,” Kim said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ken says the boating community in Leeds is "really warm"
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Describing his passion for boating as "all consuming", he has been on the water since he was 10 and lived through the droughts of 1975 and 1976.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
We found we had so much in common—bicycling, boating and fishing.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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