crewmate

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Recent Examples of crewmate 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 Lovell would successfully steer his broken ship home, bringing himself, Swigert, and crewmate Fred Haise back alive. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 But five days later, a passing Russian freighter rescued Cavanagh and a crewmate, Deborah Scaling. John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate
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Noun
  • The Royal Navy crew achieved the major milestone as part of HMS Agamemnon’s ‘trim dive’, a three-day period of testing in the town’s Devonshire Dock to prove the attack vessel’s stability and safety.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The four crew members onboard the plane were sent to local hospitals for medical treatment.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The crewman who sent the chain into motion with a single hammer blow was not identified.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That clash in the Spratlys near Second Thomas Shoal, on which Philippine marines are stationed in a rusting World War II naval vessel, left a Filipino crewman missing a thumb.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crewmate. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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