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galleon

[gal-ee-uhn, gal-yuhn] / ˈgæl i ən, ˈgæl jən /




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She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

"In those days, you would have levelled entire forests just to be able to produce a single galleon," he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Sunk in 1708, the galleon San José attained legendary status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

In 1708 the San José, a treasure-laden Spanish galleon, sunk off the coast of Colombia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

Our ship is a galleon, weathered from a million voyages going back to ages even darker than this.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The galleons brought more than silver to the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Of even greater interest to the Chinese, though, were Spanish galleons from Manila, carrying silver from mines in the Americas.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

“The ideas just cascade down about the romance of Spanish galleons and pirate ships,” Mr. Meide said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Or sometimes we’d pre-tend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor


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