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Recent Examples of messmate
But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot.
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BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
—Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
—Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messmate
Noun
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Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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The North Koreans’ former shipmates remembered them showing videos of military parades and their leader, Mr. Kim, giving speeches.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in South Florida in 2018, said some of Jaime's classmates now attend FSU.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
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The murder trial of a high school student who admitted to stabbing his classmate to death kicked off in Texas this week.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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His childhood animal playmates return to remind him about what matters in life, basically harassing him into becoming a better person.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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More fascinatingly, this behavior was most commonly exhibited when the dolphin’s playmate could see it, suggesting the smile to be an intentional, friendly gesture.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Whether Banchero and Wagner have enough confidence in their teammates to hit open shots is a fair question.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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LeBron James James takes a back seat to his new teammate this time around, coming in third.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This week, my fellow Wellness colleague and experienced runner, David Oliver, wrote an inspiring piece about a 77-year-old who ran the Boston marathon this week.—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Cai and his two colleagues will hand over control of Tiangong to the incoming Shenzhou 20 astronauts, who will begin their six-month-long mission aboard the space station.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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With Assad's ouster in December, Halaby, now 29, returned to his neighborhood of Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, to watch a backhoe unearth the remains of at least eight of his comrades from a mass grave.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2025
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Another seems to half-pass out, either from exhaustion or shock, while tending to a wounded comrade.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In an interview alongside Big Brother housemate Chris Hughes, Siwa talked about the end of her relationship.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
28 Apr. 2025
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Curio box made of cigarette packets with portraits of housemates, late nineteen-sixties.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
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In Asia, the story would take hold that Beijing was never able to peacefully persuade its compatriots to join a greater China.—
RANA MITTER,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Nor could the authors conclude definitively that the chimps were deliberately consuming ethanol-rich fruits and sharing it with their compatriots.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Messmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messmate. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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