vessel
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But it was an interesting kind of thought experiment, it was an interesting, as I said, kind of vessel to place all of the themes into.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
India summoned a top U.S. diplomat in protest after the incident, the second time a commercial vessel with Indian crew came under fire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Centcom said the vessel, which was laden with cargo, had "violated the blockade against Iran by attempting to transport Iranian oil".
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
A second man, Afghan national Tajik Mohammed, was given a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to piloting a vessel across the Channel during poor weather conditions in January.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The twenty-eight tons of ancient coins that were a part of the Shinan ship’s cargo were the largest and undoubtedly most monetarily valuable assemblage of coins ever recovered from a sunken vessel.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing vessel
The Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
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