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Recent Examples of sea captainThe film opens in the desolate Arctic, where Victor has chased his creation, and flashes back as Frankenstein relates his life’s story to a Danish sea captain whose ship is stuck in the ice.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025 Nordkapp was named by an English sea captain who sailed past the cape in 1553 while searching for the Northwest Passage.—Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 6 July 2025 That phrase is credited to a 19th-century sea captain, William Driver, whose story was told by a Smithsonian special report in 2013.—Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025 In a 26-minute coda, which opened with a six-month time jump…
▲ Hapless Choi was released from prison after a six-month stint (for breaking into super-sus sea captain Park’s home) and reunited with his funny li’l buddy as well as (former) police detective Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun).—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sea captain
Former People’s Armed Police commander Wang Chunning, also named in the statement, was removed from the national legislature last month, along with three other PLA generals.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
The defense secretary and president also summoned hundreds of military commanders and leaders to Virginia at the end of September to discuss the direction of America's fighting force, including a directive for all members of the military to achieve certain levels of physical fitness.
Despite playing just 30 minutes against West Ham, the Arsenal captain ended the game with the joint-most line-breaking passes in the final third (four).
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Art de Roché,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Her father was a Cincinnati police captain, and two of her uncles were lieutenants.
Oftentimes, Tupac and Gault wound up whiling away lunch (and beyond) at the Old Town Mall, a run-down shopping center two hops and a skip from Dunbar.
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Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
This is also the first time this has happened in the charts’ history; Swift controlled the top spots with Midnights and Tortured Poets Department, but the top spots did not include every song without skips.
In mid-June, President Donald Trump nominated Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly, a F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, for promotion to vice admiral and command of the Navy's strategically important 7th Fleet.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
These were bequeathed to her nephew Erik af Klint, a vice admiral in the Swedish Navy.
Ingraham was additionally designated as the future chair of the company's compensation committee, which could give her a key role in determining the compensation of officers and directors.
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Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
Their safety during the night could be at risk, said Peg Dierkers, chief executive officer of Bethany House, the largest of the three local family shelters.
He Weidong, China’s number two general, and navy admiral Miao Hua, the Chinese military’s former top political officer, are the latest senior military officials to be targeted in a campaign against corruption in the People’s Liberation Army.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
As a retired admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I was thrilled when Sweden and Finland joined the alliance.
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