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noun

a large, ship-size air-cushion vehicle operated over water.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of surface effect ship

First recorded in 1940–45

In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
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But they say its effect on the regular daily operation of organized crime has been negligible.
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The more resources and education society becomes equipped with, the fewer stories like yours will surface.
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All of these increased barriers then have a snowball effect.
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So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.
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A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
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He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
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And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
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