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harbor

[hahr-ber] / ˈhɑr bər /






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Charter Amendment PRT would affect the city’s departments of airports, harbor and water and power, which operate as self-funding businesses that report to three different boards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The law also gives a safe harbor to California pro sports teams and venues managing their own ticket inventory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Even in our longest relationships, we can still harbor assumptions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Navatek expected to have offices in more than a dozen states by the end of the following year, including a new 15,000-square-foot facility in the Portland, Maine, harbor.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Shortly after his return to the United States in 1790, Jefferson began to harbor the foreboding sense that the American Revolution, as he understood it, had been captured by alien forces.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

More land led directly to more wealth and power as the country scooped up farmland, mineral resources and harbors.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

But new research has revealed that this familiar element harbors an unexpectedly complex quantum landscape hidden within its electronic structure.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

“An extraordinary Solebury estate harbors more than three centuries of history, beauty, and preservation,” it notes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

Over centuries, similar conceptions of alien harbors grew in the minds of mystics and scientists, sometimes leading to fatal clashes with dominant religious doctrines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The jetty that divided the inner and outer harbors had been fortified with a long stone wall, thirty feet tall and almost a mile long, with towers every hundred yards.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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