charter
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Lighthouse Island is protected by the bird observatory and can only be accessed on an approved charter boat.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Rates to charter ships are up 65% this year on the surging demand to move vehicles out of China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
When asked whether the program has been terminated, EPA officials said simply that the committee’s charter expired on June 5, 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Private and charter schools are on the up in both academics and athletics, leaving places like Dorsey — that dominated for so long — behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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And anyone serious about increasing black and Hispanic enrollment might consider the record of high-performing charters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
From a federal law perspective, if arbitration is legal in charters of new public companies, it is also legal in bylaws of existing public companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But a few charters with less clear-cut cases were not so fortunate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Shelly said, “I’ve known Paine since back when he and Dusty used to fish charters out of Ted’s. He was always a gentleman—your daddy, 1 mean, not Dusty.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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The Joyjatra, chartered by a Singapore-based company, was marooned for nearly four months.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tens of thousands of foreigners have left the country, including Nigerians, many of whom boarded specially chartered repatriation flights.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
In 1791, when a much stronger federal government chartered the Bank of the United States, Willing was the obvious choice to run it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“It might be setting aside a defined percentage of the portfolio, typically 5% to 10%, for individual stock picks that clients can self-manage,” said Peter Hughes, a New York City-based chartered financial analyst.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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Vessels still are likely to encounter “port congestion,” as well as chartering and scheduling disruptions, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The coalition he belongs to is chartering buses to bring protesters from across California for Monday's game and is hoping to have "40- to 50,000 people" around the stadium, he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
The fight over chartering is tied in part to deeper anxieties among banks about stablecoins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
The team has to coordinate between two airline partners, chartering a Boeing 757 from Delta and a Boeing 737-800 from United, to handle travel parties of sometimes more than 100 in all.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Thither, on a cold, dark, wintry morning, Crouch and his young companion hastened immediately on their arrival at Waterloo, chartering the only taxi that was to be found at that early hour.
From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson
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