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  • noun Plural form of yacht.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yacht.

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Examples

  • The word yachts, printed in bold letters in the return address, caught her eye.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • The word yachts, printed in bold letters in the return address, caught her eye.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • The word yachts, printed in bold letters in the return address, caught her eye.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • But the problem is some are sailing around in yachts, and the harder the rest of us row, the bigger those yachts get.

    Paul Jay: How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP Paul Jay 2010

  • But the problem is some are sailing around in yachts, and the harder the rest of us row, the bigger those yachts get.

    Paul Jay: How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP Paul Jay 2010

  • But the problem is some are sailing around in yachts, and the harder the rest of us row, the bigger those yachts get.

    Paul Jay: How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP Paul Jay 2010

  • In its season, Monte Carlo attracted the super-rich Americans traveling over in yachts, widows both wealthy and on the prowl, and so many Russian princes and Grand Dukes that it seemed the court of St. Petersburg was replicated many miles (or versts to the Russians) away.

    The Season Abroad | Edwardian Promenade 2007

  • My field of expertise is not in flight aerodynamics but in sailboat aerodynamics and in aquadynamics, the design of yachts in other words; my current interest being ocean-going outrigger canoes, which usually have simpler rigs than a solid wing.

    [flight theory] and its application to sailing 2009

  • My field of expertise is not in flight aerodynamics but in sailboat aerodynamics and in aquadynamics, the design of yachts in other words; my current interest being ocean-going outrigger canoes, which usually have simpler rigs than a solid wing.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Pricing power is huge, since the yachts are a genuinely scarce luxury.

    BP Feeling 'Kremlin Effect' 2008

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