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Recent Examples of shipmate
The ship was refurbished in 2019 and offers 10 dining options, a full-service Starbucks, and a casino for late-night bonding around the blackjack table with your new shipmates.
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipmate
Noun
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Players including Aliyah Boston and Nneka Ogwumike—also featured in the Adidas shoot—are mingling, while crewmen move around screens and scaffolding.—
Nick Remsen,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2025
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Clark said the Naval Special Warfare Command reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses, such as nausea, diarrhea and vomiting, among Navy SEAL and Special Warfare Combat crewman candidates at the Coronado base from January 2019 to May 2023.—
Tammy Murga The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But why is this all-American team of highly accomplished sailors, generously funded with Tommy Hilfiger on board, struggling?—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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The rebels have targeted over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors.—
Graham Underwood,
arkansasonline.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The captain of a diving boat has been found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter after one of his passengers died tangled up in the propeller, according to federal prosecutors in Florida.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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For their heroic efforts, two — an ensign and a seaman — were awarded medals of honor.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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During Below Deck's sixth season in 2018, Freeburg made headlines for saving cast member deckhand Ashton Pienaar, who was pulled overboard when a tow line wrapped around his ankle.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved.—
Gina Ragusa,
EW.com,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.—
Jenna West,
The Athletic,
6 Aug. 2024
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Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.—
Phil Jensen,
The Mercury News,
25 June 2024
Noun
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Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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The immediate area near the crash site has been closed to mariners although the main traffic channel of the bay is open.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The removal of the HRA from the Somali basin increased confidence among shipping companies and seafarers.—
Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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As our eyes slowly adjusted to the gazillion pinprick stars above, Wiesner pointed out constellations: Orion’s Belt, consisting of three bright stars; the Southern Cross, the famous navigation tool of early seafarers; the hazy band of the Milky Way.—
Biénne Huisman,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Flash back: The first Trump administration also cut navigator funding to $10 million per year.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
10 Mar. 2025
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By this logic, the writer becomes a navigator exploring truth through lies, the real through the imaginary and vice versa, to reach the truth through lies, and this truth, if attained, must again be subjected to the test of lies or the imaginary to authenticate its truth or reality.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipmate. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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