yacht
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During the celebration, a large papier mache mackerel is carried by bearers through the town over to the yacht club, before it is blessed and then burned at sunset.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He owned a 56-foot yacht he named Silver Lining, and authorities said he was known as a master yachtsman and a world traveler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The frigate fired warning shots as Jane and Alan Kelvey sailed their yacht on what Russia's defence ministry said had been a "dangerous approach".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Several hundred protesters shouted slogans hostile to US policies in the Middle East and tried to get close to the yacht, guarded by masked police officers, local media footage showed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Wow, have you got a yacht, Mr. Salt?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Speed boats and yachts dock along the pier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Over the years, however, Xu's taste for yachts and luxury clashed with President Xi Jinping's crackdown on extreme wealth as Beijing tightened its watch over corruption within the financial sector.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Gibson, from Penbryn Nant, in Ruthin, Denbighshire, lied that he had been worth hundreds of millions of pounds, had served in the Special Boat Service, and owned yachts.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Far downstream, twinkling lights began to appear at the portholes of some of the larger yachts anchored near the finish line.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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She may repeat the furore created when King George's mother, Denmark's radiant Alexandra, was similarly yachted to Britain to marry the future Edward VII.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It didn't occasion any loud comments from nobility or clergy when the King yachted to Yugoslavia with Mrs. Simpson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Yes, I yachted along the coast from Bar Harbor to Portland one summer."
From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham
The Cryptolocker mastermind was eventually identified as Evgeniy Bogachev, a Russian national known to be fond of luxury cars and yachting on the Black Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
A yachting incident intensified the rivalry between Turner and Murdoch in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner's in the Sydney-Hobart race, sinking Turner's schooner.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
While the furniture and housing industries also use old-growth teak, they have generally found it easier to substitute plantation teak than the yachting industry, he adds.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
After lounging on Hawaii’s beaches and yachting in Sicily, a new star-studded cast has headed to Thailand for a luxurious, deadly vacation in “The White Lotus.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
But Coyotito—he was the one—he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had seen once when a pleasure boat put into the estuary.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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