crewmate

Definition of crewmatenext

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Recent Examples of crewmate Her crewmate on Boeing's troubled Starliner test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026 Williams joined her crewmate from the Starliner mission, Butch Wilmore, in retirement. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026 The latter takes on the job to provide for his pregnant girlfriend, but the sea soon turns into a nightmare after a crewmate commits suicide and the captain refuses to return to shore. Annika Pham, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025 Only four days long, the mission stood out for demonstrating all of the skills needed to send astronauts to the moon, including rendezvousing and docking with an Agena target and the first successful spacewalks conducted by crewmate Buzz Aldrin. Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate
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Noun
  • The day after the shooting, about a dozen news crews camped across from a beige, two-story home in Torrance, California, linked to Allen.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Wise County emergency crews, with mutual aid from other communities, were working on search and rescue, medical response, and damage assessment, Clark said.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But, at one point, a crewman on a what looked like a cargo ship raised his hand.
    Sohel Uddin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Then overnight Sunday, officials said the second crewman had been recovered.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026

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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crewmate. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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