boat
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The mostly middle-aged crowd featured men in boat shoes and women with jewelry at an outdoor space where boats docked near the restaurant.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
In Akwa Ibom state, operatives acting on credible intelligence intercepted a wooden boat on the high seas last Friday, which was heading to Cameroon, and arrested three people on board.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Each boat considered at risk is disinfected by teams who wear whole face masks and boots.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The commercial waterman won in the small boat division of the singles bracket with a time of 23 seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A boat that resembles an army tank, complete with caterpillar tracks and a periscope, slides past us on the left, putting us dead last.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The mostly middle-aged crowd featured men in boat shoes and women with jewelry at an outdoor space where boats docked near the restaurant.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Speed boats and yachts dock along the pier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"There was really no better choice to describe this setting: right there on the beach, right there in the port of Rimini, where through the ornamentation we also almost echoed the portholes of the boats."
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Shared taxis and passenger boats between the areas will be suspended for one month starting on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
At this time of night all the boats were on the beach.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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
“It’s the worst situation I’ve seen on the lake,” said South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tamara Wallace, who has lived and boated in the area for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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
She took ballet; played basketball with her mother, brother and cousins; and boated and swam in the sea on weekends.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 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
“It’s not only boating, but it’s any type of activity,” Kim said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
We love vacationing in Lake Tahoe, swimming and boating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
They work remotely and came together for a few days of activities that included painting, pedal boating and navigating a ropes course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
On Friday, police divers recovered a body and confirmed it was the teenager who entered the lake, which is used for boating and angling.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I couldn’t have imagined that I, a kid whose closest contact with boating was the Staten Island Ferry when I visited my aunt once a year, would end up lost at sea.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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