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Recent Examples of seafarer What to know about the seafarers The blobs are not jellyfish but colonies of polyps similar to the Portuguese man-of-war, according to JellyWatch. Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Why, as the famous seafarer's prayer asks, is thy sea so great and my boat is so small? Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025 The tiny seafarers have been seen along the west coast as far north as Canada and as far south as Mexico, iNaturalist data shows. Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Research now shows that some stalwart seafarers stroked their way from mainland Europe to the island of Malta, about 60 miles away, about 8,500 years ago, according to an article in the journal Nature. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seafarer
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Noun
  • Tristan was a sailor who captained the school’s forty-foot yacht.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • Read Next California Navy sailor killed answering unexpected knock in 2021, CA cops say.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • However, the Highway Patrol has two requirements for young mariners.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025
  • Curious, the mariners decided to investigate using an underwater camera.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • During last week’s budget conference, the Florida House moved to strip all funding from the Office of Hope Florida and its navigators.
    Anne Watts Tressler, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2025
  • Some minor repairs were needed on the Electra, and Earhart—now concerned about her navigator’s sobriety—delayed departure by a day.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025

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