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crewman

noun

Definition of crewman

as in shipmate

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Recent Examples of crewman Then overnight Sunday, officials said the second crewman had been recovered. — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 Video showed a soaked Molly among a pile of rocks as a crewman picked her up and carried her to the helicopter. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026 Readers of The Log may be interested in Steinbeck scholar Gregory MacDonald’s report on recollections of two other members of the 1940 expedition, crewman Sparky Enea and Captain Tony Berry, made many years after the fact. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 17 Mar. 2026 There had also been a man-overboard situation on another boat, although thankfully the crewman was swiftly located and successfully recovered by his teammates. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewman

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Noun

At one point, shipmate Dave Faulkner screamed as he was thrown to the bottom deck.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.

— Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026

Definition of shipmate

Noun

Hernandez was charged with two counts of misconduct of a ship officer resulting in death under the seaman’s manslaughter statute and released on a $50,000 bond at his presentment in Manhattan federal court two days after the incident.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
Yusiel Lopez Insua, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seaman’s manslaughter, according to court records.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of seaman

Noun

The military said Chinese coast guard personnel aboard a motorboat repeatedly struck the sailor on the head with a wooden baton, injuring him and damaging his smaller vessel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
Along will Bill Koch, who conceived of the female experiment as the benefactor of the Mighty Mary, another billionaire sailor with ties to Mighty Mary is Larry Ellison.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of sailor

Noun

Determined, Teagan bulldozes her way through the boathouse, eventually becoming the team’s coxswain, the only non-rowing member who is tasked with steering, managing the race plan and motivating the rest of the team.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
At her new school, Teagan becomes the coxswain of a dysfunctional all-boys rowing team.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of coxswain

Noun

In that moment, the coach’s role transformed from tactical advisor to emergency navigator.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Reportedly, the artificial intelligence serves as both the observational eyes and the active navigator throughout the procedure by establishing a continuous feedback loop between real-time ultrasound image processing and physical surgical control.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of navigator

Noun

Officials said a good Samaritan vessel also stepped in, rescuing the 15-year-old survivor and recovering the bodies of the two deceased mariners from the water.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Every shipping container that comes through the port creates jobs for warehouse workers, mechanics, merchant mariners, truck drivers and community members across the East Bay, Simon said.

— Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of mariner

Noun

In a statement on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that an Iranian attack had killed two seafarers aboard a Saudi oil tanker on Monday.

— Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026
Radker acknowledged the positives in the Hapag-Lloyd proposal, including the employment commitments and the intention to train additional Israeli seafarers.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of seafarer

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