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yacht

[yot] / jɒt /


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According to investigators, proceeds from the fund were used to bankroll high-end real estate, a luxury yacht and precious artworks, including a Monet and a Van Gogh.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

She’s matched with Blake, a 38-year-old yacht captain who has joked that he is “comically broke.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Weeks after the tournament ended, Haaland woke up from a two-hour nap on a yacht somewhere off the coast of Sicily to a strange realization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

She even sought out McDonald, another yacht rock OG, for a collab that didn’t end up making the LP, which expanded beyond her original premise as her listening broadened along with her cooking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then the battered vessel comes into view past a small building, its back end sunk low into the water as the yacht chugs along.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. began to indict Russian oligarchs and seize yachts and other assets.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

They have allowed people to hold business interests, yachts, artwork and bitcoin in private-placement life insurance policies, according to advisers who work with ultrawealthy clients abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

All the other students at Augustus Day School had vacation homes in places like the Maldives or Provence, and they complained when their yachts were under repair.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It didn't occasion any loud comments from nobility or clergy when the King yachted to Yugoslavia with Mrs. Simpson.

From Time Magazine Archive

It turned my mind towards Egypt, which I have never seen, although I've yachted all over the place.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens

According to the account of solo sailing that Cole Brauer gives in her memoir, “First Light,” the internet has become an integral part of long-haul yachting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

There have been many other sporting knighthoods and damehoods, including in athletics, yachting, football, golf, tennis, horse racing, cycling and rowing.

From BBC ● May 30, 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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