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Recent Examples of Synonyms for messmates
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Heart The Lover by Lily King During her senior year of college, Jordan is drawn into an intense friendship and romantic triangle with two brilliant classmates, Sam and Yash, in a bond that shapes her ambitions and alters all three of their lives.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026 -
As the shooting unfolded, texts came into Salzman’s phone from classmates sharing their hiding locations.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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Photographed heading to Lattanzi in New York with his colleagues for the week, Storrie opted for a chocolate brown, shearling collared leather jacket by Sandro, a cobalt blue knit, straight-leg blue jeans, and black Saint Laurent penny loafers with white socks.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2026
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In his statement, Fincke thanked his Crew-11 colleagues, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, who were also aboard the space station at the time and are still in space.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
25 Feb. 2026
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From the agency’s command post five stories beneath a high-rise in Kyiv, the general and several of his comrades, including Fedorov, monitored the launch of the naval drones on a bank of screens.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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Selfless sacrifice in order to stay with his comrades, stay with his unit until the very end.—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Morales leaped in the air and got hugged by his teammates.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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For the first time since the end of Ryder Ryan’s senior year at North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville, North Carolina, Ryder and his younger brother, River, are teammates again.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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But the mood among Musk and his associates changed as Russia intensified its threats to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine and its Western allies.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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In our recent, not-yet-successful efforts to reform gerrymandering abuses in Illinois, my associates and I have received disquieting, even distressing, feedback about our state.—
Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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Selling history, literature and philosophy books at his stand, Sorakji said most of the people buying were Kurds, but there were also Arabs who want to know more about their compatriots.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The victory was the 29-year-old’s third of these Olympics and tied the Norwegian skier with three of his compatriots — fellow cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjorn Daehlie and biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen — on eight gold medals overall.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Demand for those classes — in which participants learn how to navigate avalanche terrain, how to read the snowpack and look for warning signs, and how to rescue their companions should the worst happen — has grown alongside backcountry skiing’s popularity.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Their bid to cash in on the find quickly unravels into a dangerous pursuit, as smugglers and rivals close in and an unlikely band of companions, including a resourceful fish vendor and a volatile local troublemaker, get swept up in the mayhem.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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