messmate

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Recent Examples of messmate But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot. 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
  • This subsequently sends the starship forward or backward in time, while occasionally (and inexplicably) transforming your shipmates into freaky clay heads.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Zumba, a Navy reservist who earlier was a shipmate of Urena on the destroyer USS Carney, pleaded guilty in December to the same charge.
    Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • But some classmates at Detroit’s Waldorf School connected the dots.
    Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Her teachers, her students, her other classmates, the other parents that have now gotten involved since she's gone through this tragedy of loss.
    Beret Leone, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Rory is delighted when his older sister weaves a playmate for him out of flowers and words, naming her Daye.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Earlier that same month, the former Playboy playmate tried out a splash of color, adding pink streaks to her platinum hair.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Past employees have said that working under Levin is nightmarish; one former colleague of Levin’s filed a gender discrimination complaint against the organization in 2020.
    Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Their decisions came the day before the House returned to Washington and as both faced the prospect of being expelled from the chamber by their colleagues.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In contrast, his teammate on the blueline is starting to see the vision.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Five other teammates shot at least two free throws.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Yet the North Vietnamese were not the ideological comrades of American college students and Jane Fonda.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Israel has been hunting him and his comrades, picking them off by airstrike and drone, in surprise attacks that often kill civilians alongside them.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Miller joined the cast of Summer House as a former paramour of Gulbranson, sparking the ire of housemate and future Giggly Squad co-host Hannah Berner.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But when her housemate Molly (Laura Marcus) takes her relentless bullying a step too far, Bliss comes to the conclusion that perhaps the demons she’s been hunting have been under her roof the whole time.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026

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“Messmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messmate. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.

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