boat
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The filing claims that by the next week, Storonsky’s team had already arranged to buy the boat directly from Dovigi, bypassing the broker entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The birds are gutted, plucked and salted on Sula Sgeir before being taken by boat to Lewis where they are counted by a NatureScot official.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
They’re looking for photos and videos of the child on a raft or boat with other children, and witnesses who could have seen the child before she was pulled from the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Most evacuees were taken back to Surabaya, a six-hour boat ride from where the ferry ran into trouble.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
I watch through the window as he uses bright yellow paint to draw a large letter G on the back of our hopefully unsinkable, but likely very sinkable, cardboard boat.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The primary use of the boats, though, has been surveillance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anduril’s foray into unmanned surface vessels hit a bump when the company recently lost in a Navy competition for medium-size drone boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
During a visit to Dover on Monday, Andy Burnham said progress had been made in curbing the number of people arriving in the UK on small boats.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It would see Royal Navy vessels intercept all migrant boats in the Channel as part of a humanitarian response.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
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
Naya Rivera, who played cheerleader Santana Lopez,, drowned in Lake Piru in July 2020 after saving her then-4-year-old son while the pair boated together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
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
We love vacationing in Lake Tahoe, swimming and boating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Wells, 18, did not return with friends from a boating trip to Horn Island on 4 July and his body was found in the water two days later.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
And on top of that: fishing, boating, mineral extraction, and protection from underground toxins that could blanket Utah’s most heavily populated area and drive everyone away—not just from Box Elder, but from the state altogether.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
She went to jazz clubs in Chicago, skiing in the California mountains and boating on Lake Union in Seattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Apparently, a couple of Mainers were boating a few miles off Wells Beach and they spotted a large shark not far from the boat.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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