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salvage

[sal-vij] / ˈsæl vɪdʒ /


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His career has included Coast Guard search and rescue operations, maritime salvage missions, drug interdiction work, and research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory involving autonomous systems, space technologies, and undersea platforms.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

There had been last-ditch efforts to salvage FCAS.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Felt sure he could have gone through to Q3 but even without that, was right there with and ahead of Haas team-mate Oliver Bearman and kept it clean to salvage some valuable points.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

But the investor ban is too problematic to salvage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“A strange creature, that one. I’ve never heard of a salvage company that would bond that sort of muscle.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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