as in motorboat
a boat equipped with a motor
his friend had a powerboat and took them out waterskiing
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Recent Examples of powerboat
This weekend, the historic powerboat racing series returns to east Mission Bay for the 57th time.
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Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
The couple had three children together before Stefano tragically died in a powerboat racing accident in 1990.
—Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The race will be run off Virginia Key near the historic Miami Marine Stadium, once the heart of American powerboat racing.
—Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2025
Never stand up in your small powerboat, canoe or similar watercraft.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for powerboat
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According to the bill, people can’t operate a motorboat and wakeboard or wake surf on public freshwater lakes between sunset and sunrise.—
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Country musician Zac Brown pulls up to the beach on a motorboat in one scene, while contestant Christian Hubicki laments at another point that his fate in the game may be decided by Jimmy Fallon, a nod to the late-night host having possibly devised an advantage.—
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Isla Barú and Islas del Rosario Drive out to the white sands of Isla Barú or take a speedboat ride to the more remote Islas del Rosario for what are the best beaches near Cartagena on this side of Tayrona National Park.—
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The resort occupies its own private motu (islet) just 20 minutes by speedboat from Bora Bora’s airport.—
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In the footage, Officer Hunter Weaver is seen stepping out of his cruiser and twice ordering a man, later identified as Frank Mejia Aguilar, to show his hands, once using an expletive.—
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Deputies Shayne Leggett and Andrew Daymut were on the scene attempting to corral the determined emu using catch poles, while dispatchers monitored the unfolding situation via live feeds from the deputies’ cruiser cameras and body cameras.—
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“Powerboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/powerboat. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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