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boat

[boht] / boʊt /


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When I first meet Turkish girl group manifest, we're on a boat cruising down the River Thames.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When rescue crews arrived, no boat was in the area and more than a dozen people were in the water, said U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The three men, who are all from Lewis, had been fishing in a boat called Kilda.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Cordoba described one common route: A fishing boat heads north close to the Colombian coast and crosses into Panama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The light shone on a boat run up on a shelf of ice.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Eritreans were the most common nationality among small boats migrants in the 12 months to June - accounting for 18% of arrivals, external, according to figures from the House of Commons Library.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Guoth said he put his ducks and chickens in the bathroom and weighed down his boats and trailers so "nothing flips over".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"These hearing tests give us that baseline and allow us to start asking how noises from ships, boats, aircraft and coastal construction might affect seals and sea lions."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

These humpback whales, they’re right underneath these tiny little boats, and if they wanted to, they could just flick their tail, and you’d be off in the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Everybody was cheering and the other boats blasted their steam whistles as it approached 96th Street.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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

Before co-founding Arc with fellow Northwestern alum Ryan Cook, Lee grew up in the Bay Area and frequently boated with his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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

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

Studland Bay Marine Partnership is made up of conservation charities, boating organisations, academics, statutory bodies, community groups and businesses, with the aim of restoring Studland's seagrass.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ms. Brauer, a scrappy, dyslexic young woman from a working-class Long Island, N.Y., family, discovered boating in college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When she feels up to it, they go boating or ride bicycles to nearby beaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In 2017, Clear Lake’s dire condition led the state to establish a blue ribbon commission, with tribal participation, focused on cleaning up the lake to bolster the local boating and fishing economy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I don’t think I’m up for boating yet,” he said.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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