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lifeboats

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plural of lifeboat

as in longboats

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The 1970s marked a reinvigoration in quilting culture, with the introduction of specialty rulers and rotary cutters for use with modern patterns.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The 1,680-ton tunnel-boring machine unveiled Monday is nearly the length of two football fields and armed with cutters harder than diamonds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of cutters

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Deadline can reveal that the Line of Duty showrunner is spearheading a bid to produce Doctor Who after the BBC launched a competitive tender, a bake-off-style process in which producers have put forward plans to regenerate the iconic sci-fi series.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
But up here on the terraces of the Anantara Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi, the shrieks of day-tripping cruise passengers, zipping back and forth in Tango-orange tenders, are pleasantly faint.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of tender

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From there, the builder installs two clamping, adjustable keels called leeboards that act together like a centerboard.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Jennifer Jason Leigh, as the freshman with a lot to learn, proaches her Stacy with the most even of keels.

— Gina Friedlande, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026

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Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
Today, the use of motorboats has made the hunt increasingly controversial, placing traditional subsistence practices at the center of debates about culture, livelihoods and marine conservation.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of motorboats

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This type of maritime migration is different from the once-common arrivals of rafts and other homemade vessels that Cubans are known to use to escape their homeland, and the overloaded freighters and sailboats used by people fleeing Haiti.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
The Coast Guard had dropped inflatable rafts in the water nearby, but the teen — who was suffering from hypothermia — was too weak to swim to them.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026

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The launch complex was originally built in the 1960s to host launches of a different megarocket — NASA's Saturn V, which sent the Apollo moon missions skyward.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
New oil-in-serum launches from mass-market drugstore brands over the next two quarters.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

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