moored
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One of the beefs homeowners have with PWCs—and so called “wake boats”—is that the waves they generate can slam moored boats into docks and erode shorelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
On Wednesday, a drone struck a US-owned gas vessel moored in an Egyptian port, causing a fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Officers who had been recovered from the river were seen being treated by paramedics on a rigid black inflatable boat moored to the side of the river.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Three days before the U.S. game in Seattle some 500 fans, most wearing the blue-and-white striped jerseys of Argentina, filed onto a 322-foot cargo barge moored in Elliott Bay to watch their team play Algeria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Clementine Stark had a canopy bed moored like an imperial barge at one end of her sea-blue bedroom carpet.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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