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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.
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Brave whalers were pitted against the mysterious powers of the deep, as represented by the huge whale.
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In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built the Sovetskaya Rossiya, a whaler the size of an aircraft carrier.
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Later, he owned a share in two other whalers.
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The whalers spring into the sea and the boat is crushed beneath the hull.
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The Hawaiians had no names for whales and the old whalers never found them around the islands.