as in mariner
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
the sailors were glad to be arriving in port after their long voyage
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Recent Examples of sailor
Humans Bobbing Around In The Pacific With Minimal Provisions For Days
For the 900 sailors who survived the initial sinking, the real nightmare was just beginning.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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
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
The sailors’ splashes and cries, along with the debris from the sinking ship, likely signaled to the sharks that an easy feast was at hand.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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
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
The sailors’ splashes and cries, along with the debris from the sinking ship, likely signaled to the sharks that an easy feast was at hand.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sailor
Noun
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Thursday’s launch then got pushed back by about half an hour when a boat strayed into the keep-away zone designed offshore for mariners’ safety.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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The fierce mariners who swept out of Scandinavia in the late 700s and marauded for centuries through the North Atlantic and Baltic?—
Timothy Farrington,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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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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“Sailor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sailor. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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