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vessel

[ves-uhl] / ˈvɛs əl /




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Beyond the improvements in blood vessel function and blood pressure, participants eating mango and avocado consumed more fiber, vitamin C, and monounsaturated fat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

In December last year, Finnish police detained a vessel sailing from Russia, which was suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia, across the Gulf of Finland.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

It took 15 years to transform the deteriorating, stripped-down hulk into a functioning vessel and figure out how to fly planes from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The MV Odyssey set off two years ago from Belfast, urging people to “make the Odyssey your permanent home,” with the price of a suite for the lifetime of the vessel starting around $230,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

With each new artifact discovered, Peter Throckmorton’s bond with those who sailed on that vessel more than three thousand years before strengthened.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Many vessels chose not to contact the Houthis, which the U.S. sanctions and designates as a foreign terrorist organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

These cells form the lining of tiny blood vessels inside the liver.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, with a broken industrial base, America produces very few oceangoing commercial vessels and has struggled to expand its approximately 290-ship navy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Greenpeace said that, external after dropping the two-tonne boulders, it had called "the authorities to tell them the coordinates of each placement, and they update maps to inform other vessels".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"German battleships and submarines operating in the Atlantic sank 367,800 tons of merchant vessels from March 16 through March 23," says the announcer.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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