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outboard

noun

Definition of outboard

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Recent Examples of outboard That case charged a handful of Florida defendants with stealing more than 600 outboard boat engines and vessels from the Tampa area and shipping them to the migrant smugglers in the Quintana Roo area. — Jay Weaver may 14, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Think of them as cigarette boats, large, powerful outboard engined boats that can race out and get among ships and cause direct damage that way. — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 The outboard-exit setup remains standard. — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Mar. 2026 The middle seat is removable and outboard seats can be moved forward or aft and side to side. — Scotty Reiss, Parents, 24 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for outboard

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Noun

Those are responsible for starting the diesel engines, which can be divorced via a lever that engages and disengages the inboard steering clutches.

— Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 20 Aug. 2026
Post-impact fire consumed the majority of the fuselage and the inboard wing sections.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025

Definition of inboard

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American builder Cigarette Racing Team was founded by powerboat mogul Don Aronow in 1969 and grew to prominence in the Miami Vice era.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
The 6,500-seat stadium on Virginia Key opened in 1963 and was once a major South Florida destination for powerboat racing, concerts and community events.

— Sergio Candido, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of powerboat

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Twenty-six miles to the south, Ronald Conley rescued his dogs from his elevated house with a pontoon boat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Highlights and experiences It is always a special event stepping out of Venice’s airport onto a pontoon and a polished mahogany water taxi that drops you off canalside near your hotel, after a purr through the Grand Canal.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of pontoon

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Once a thriving fishing village, the island was abandoned when motorboats became commonplace in the mid-20th century, and fishing communities no longer needed to live close to spawning grounds.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of motorboat

Noun

And to explore the surroundings, the schooner has a sailing dinghy and bicycles prepped and ready for its passengers.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
On Tuesday, hundreds of activists gathered at a marina in Gosport, near Portsmouth, as Thomas filmed himself going out to sea to try to intercept a dinghy carrying dozens of migrants across the Channel from France.

— Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinghy

Noun

Matt Steven stepped into the booth at the start of 2026, having already coached New Zealand’s 49er skiff crew to an Olympic silver medal at Paris 2024.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The teen told White that his brother was still under the skiff at the time of his rescue, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of skiff

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Instead, new tariffs will be applied to Canadian exports of cocoa powder, vinyl flooring, shampoo, canoes and other products.

— New York Times, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026
And in May of last year, 61-year-old Cynthia Diekema was killed after an alligator tipped her out of her canoe.

— Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of canoe

Noun

Independence Police Officer Matthew Arnold was driving the cruiser that hit Leslie’s vehicle, according to Officer Allyx McCoy, a police spokesperson.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Christened Invision, the 328-footer is designed as a rugged, bluewater cruiser with a superyacht’s style, comfort, and finish.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026

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