hulk
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At an estimated cost of $3.8 billion, it will replace the rusting, abandoned hulk that sits at the east end of East Capitol Street, fronting the Anacostia River.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
He said she "flipped like the hulk" during an argument at the home in Wimborne Avenue in Earlswood.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
This hulk of metal, a deepwater platform called Appomattox and owned by Shell, collects the oil and gas that rigs tap from reservoirs thousands of feet below the seafloor.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
The makeshift Philippine naval base there is built up around the grounded, rusting hulk of the World War II-era ship, the Sierra Madre.
From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2023
The sound came again, thin and keening, from the black hulk of the body on the far right.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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