as in oarsman
a person who drives a boat forward by means of oars
the racing shell carries four rowers and a coxswain
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Recent Examples of rower
See You At The Finish Line follows Lucas, a sharp-witted, working-class rower, and George, an American golden-boy captain, whose uneasy alliance evolves into a tender but combustible love story against the backdrop of the famous boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
With a garland of white flowers in front of him, a lone rower kneeling in a wooden canoe glided toward the DuSable Bridge docks.
—William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
With a garland of white flowers in front of him, a lone rower kneeling in a wooden canoe glided toward the DuSable Bridge docks.
—William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rower
Noun
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Every year, a team of oarsmen are tasked with finding the swans on a stretch of the Thames.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
16 July 2025
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Hundreds of refugees began rushing the rowboats; once those were filled, the oarsmen, worried about capsizing and afraid of being stranded, began beating people back.—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
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Aside from a single oar found the following day, there was no sign of Wade.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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This design allows the appendages to fan out underwater, so they can be used like an oar.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Conan Gray’s ‘denim behemoth’ Thick, heavy and water-absorbent — denim is, frankly, a sailor’s nightmare.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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Where at one time soldiers and sailors made do with fluttering flags or flashes of light to send simple messages, the modern warfighter is part of a global digital network where data rushes about like water out of a firehose and satellites act as a vital link in that network.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Sep. 2025
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Licht, who has spent years on Richardson Bay, says a community of mariners who lived for decades on boats have mostly moved ashore.—
Steven Rosenfeld,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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The entire shoreline is under high swim risk warnings, and advisories for boaters and mariners.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Rower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rower. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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