Thesaurus results for DEEPWATER

deepwater

adjective

as in deep-sea

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Recent Examples of deepwater Furthermore, a preliminary agreement with Egypt’s EGAS may lead to the development of five deepwater gas wells in the Mediterranean, connecting to existing infrastructure. —

Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Those offshore turbines are dramatically larger than ones on land and require substantial infrastructure at ports for construction, from large assembly facilities to deepwater docks for ships that carry turbines out to sea. —

Lauren Sommer, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025 The changes a deepwater port could bring The Army Corps of Engineers this month issued a $400 million contract to begin the first phase of the port project, which will ultimately include dredging sediment from the ocean so bigger ships can dock. —

Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025 Flores is east of Lombok and thus east of the Wallace line, so that the ancestor to The Hobbit had to cross the deepwater channel. —

Madeleine Beekman august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deepwater

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Japan has launched a month-long deep-sea mission aimed at unlocking a new domestic source of rare earth elements, a move that could reshape how the country secures critical minerals used in electric vehicles, electronics, and defense systems.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
Tankers are seen at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in the Sharjah Emirate, along the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil output passes on June 23, 2025.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026