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Recent Examples of coxswain
The acting is solid, particularly by Hadley Robinson as Joe’s love interest, Joyce, and Luke Slattery as Bobby Moch, who as the team’s coxswain doesn’t lift an oar but is in charge of navigation and steering.
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
The smoke was so thick that the coxswain could not see the bow of the ship.
—Riley Mellen, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
Hauser had been selected by a coxswain to help get other sailors to a ship.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
The smoke was so thick that the coxswain could not see the bow of the ship.
—Riley Mellen, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
Hauser had been selected by a coxswain to help get other sailors to a ship.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coxswain
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The sole survivor The wreck claimed the lives of 28 of its 29 crewman, leaving only Dennis Hale alive.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2024
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Almost half of the dead were crewmen from the battleship USS Arizona, which sank within minutes after a bomb struck its forward magazine, igniting more than a million pounds of ammunition.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
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Sure enough, just as deckhand Otto Knottnerus turned on his camera, the whales leaped out of the water – at exactly the same time, in sync with one another.Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 3 Dec. 2024
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The captain and a deckhand had been rescued earlier in the week after the boat became stranded, Hawley indicated.Alex Nitzberg, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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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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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The late former president may have served honorably as a sailor, but his instincts as president were to shrink and deprioritize America’s naval forces.Steven Wills, National Review, 11 Jan. 2025
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Despite influencing multiple books and movies, in many ways, the sailors' real-life tale is even more harrowing.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
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According to the Navy, the seaman was born June 15, 1918, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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Success planning provides each student with a navigator who co-creates a unique plan of action with each child, their family, educators, and other caring adults.Libby Schaaf, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
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Other analyses of career navigation programs explain specific elements like the role of career navigators.Bruno V. Manno, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Based out of smaller home ports such as Greenport on Long Island, the Picket Force flotilla was known informally as the Corsair Fleet or, sometimes, the Hooligan Navy, an unsubtle nod to the ragtag collection of mariners at its core.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Perched atop a windswept bluff, this Victorian Gothic beauty has been guiding mariners since 1890.Cliff Lewis, Orange County Register, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Coxswain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coxswain. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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