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crewmate

noun

Definition of crewmatenext
as in crew

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Recent Examples of crewmate At 17, Gilder joined more than a dozen of her women’s crewmates in protesting Yale’s treatment of women athletes. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 June 2026 Maintaining an appropriate level of engagement with the spacecraft, with the control team, and with your crewmates. — David W. Brown, New Yorker, 24 May 2026 Chris Ferguson, who flew as the pilot of Tanner’s last mission, STS-115, and who was inducted in 2022, honored his former crewmate similarly. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026 My crewmates seemed surprised to get this kind of pushback from within the Mars Society. — Elena Saavedra Buckley, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crewmate
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  1. crew
  2. crewman
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  • Sandy praises her crew for performing efficiently under pressure, and gives out the $1,807 each of them earned from a $23,500 tip.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Trump announced his ban in a post Friday, causing some confusion in the White House as crews from the outelts remained onsite.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of crew
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  • Gregory served as a crewman on the Wizard, owned and operated by Keith, from 2018 to 2022.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
  • The acclaimed author of The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf brings erudition and flair to Forster’s peripatetic career as teenaged crewman on Captain Cook’s global voyage.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crewmate. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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