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Recent Examples of able seaman
One able seaman, a 39-year-old man named Arokiyam, lives in the village of Alanthalai, an hour south of Tuticorin.
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Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 16 June 2021
Within a week, Brito D'Silva, an able seaman (a senior member of the deck on crew), died of an unspecified illness.
—Saudamini Jain, CNN, 20 Mar. 2021
The transcript of these conversations, as well as (one-sided) electronic communications among the captain, mates, engineers, able seamen and people ashore, runs to 500 pages.
—Douglas Preston, New York Times, 1 May 2018
Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 16 June 2021
Within a week, Brito D'Silva, an able seaman (a senior member of the deck on crew), died of an unspecified illness.
—Saudamini Jain, CNN, 20 Mar. 2021
The transcript of these conversations, as well as (one-sided) electronic communications among the captain, mates, engineers, able seamen and people ashore, runs to 500 pages.
—Douglas Preston, New York Times, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for able seaman
Noun
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The Indonesian crewmen earned about $330 per month but did not know how much the North Koreans made.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Only two of the crewman were pulled into the other lifeboat that held Minch and his family, and the vessel bobbed in the darkness amid rough weather for 10 hours, experts said.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
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Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.—
Adriana Brasileiro,
orlandosentinel.com,
19 July 2019
Noun
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Its investigators also obtained video clips that mentioned North Koreans being on board and showed shipmates speaking in Korean.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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“Able seaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/able%20seaman. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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