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banker

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Definition of banker

as in hooker

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Recent Examples of banker Britain’s financial regulator has banned a former HSBC banker from the industry over a train-fare fraud that cost a railway operator £5,911, or about $7,800. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 Rules of Civility, Amor Towles A whip-smart Brooklyn girl from a working-class immigrant family, stationed in a Wall Street typing pool, meets a charming banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on the last night of 1937. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 Bolsonaro has seen his political career tainted by several corruption accusations, the latest of them involving a disgraced banker paying him millions of dollars, allegedly to produce a movie on his father's life. — ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026 Naomi, a maverick environmental lawyer; her husband, banker Amaré; and their longtime friend Raheem, who works as an auto mechanic. — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for banker

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Noun

Depending on what the alleged hooker’s name was, maybe York was just trying to stay under the Valerie cap?

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Skipper and scrumhalf Lucu darted over after a strong run into contact from his hooker Lamothe and touched down on the half-hour to score France’s fourth try, securing a bonus competition point.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026

Definition of hooker

Noun

Shackleton purchased a wooden Norwegian whaler, Foca I, which his wife Emily renamed Quest.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
While en route to ship out on a Nantucket whaler, Ishmael spends a night at New Bedford’s Spouter-Inn, a night which quickly takes on the semblance of stage farce.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of whaler

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Instead, the company is changing course to focus on developing autonomous products, such as self-driving taxis and humanoid robots.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
The former taxi driver had been arrested three years earlier after police unearthed a mass grave in a forest ‌near the Indian Ocean town of Malindi, where his followers had been living in mud huts.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of taxi

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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025

Definition of whaleboat

Noun

As the balloon and its occupants fell to the ground, the nylon envelope and the gondola separated, and the wreckage scattered over a roughly 100-yard area, parts of it blackened by the explosion and resulting fire.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
For a unique experience, book a hot-air balloon ride, hop aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train, or cruise along the Napa River in a gondola.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of gondola

Noun

As an alternative, consider the ferry to and from Hong Kong via the SkyPier Terminal and coordinate with The Langham Shenzhen’s concierge team for a seamless limo transfer.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Typhoon Champi is threatening the port recovery that eastern China had only just started to record, with ferry suspensions and maritime emergency responses already in force across Shanghai and the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces Friday.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026