shipmate

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Recent Examples of shipmate The exception is a video that lawmakers say shows a second strike on a boat on Sept. 2, which killed two survivors after their shipmates were killed. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025 Booking too early or too late can mean missing out on perks—or paying more than your shipmates. Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025 According to the Navy, Peterson kept the ship operational and was credited with saving the lives of 123 of his shipmates before succumbing to his injuries. Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 27 June 2025 Violence and exhaustion, plus control over rare calories coming their way, does not for friendly shipmates make. Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for shipmate
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Noun
  • But, at one point, a crewman on a what looked like a cargo ship raised his hand.
    Sohel Uddin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Then overnight Sunday, officials said the second crewman had been recovered.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Long before modern navigation systems existed, Viking sailors may have used special crystals known as sunstones to locate the Sun through clouds or fog.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
  • When three internationals are allowed on the six-person race team, why not take the opportunity to recruit the world’s very best sailors?
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The skeleton was found with a seaman’s certificate and other papers in a leather pocketbook belonging to Petty Officer Harry Peglar of the HMS Terror.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • CeCe Downing's Start Over Summer by Soon Wiley Recently fired and reeling from a breakup, Cece Downing escapes to New London, Connecticut, where financial pressure pushes her into an unexpected job as a deckhand on an oyster boat.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • In season 11 of Below Deck, Barbie clashed with chief stew Fraser and was involved with deckhand Kyle.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Like the others, the coxswain is also in red and blue stripes.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • For once, everyone is more or less rowing the boat in the same direction, with a determined coxswain at the front.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Their leader, English mariner Martin Frobisher, had spent most of his life at sea (or imprisoned because of it).
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • The system, called WhaleSpotter, scans the bay around the clock for whale blows and heat signatures up to 2 nautical miles away, alerting mariners to slow down or reroute when whales are nearby.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Omani authorities urged caution for vessels and seafarers after the sighting of a floating object suspected to be a naval mine west of the Inshore Traffic Zone in the Strait of Hormuz within Omani territorial seas.
    Kate Sullivan, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • The ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has created uncertainty for hundreds of ships and around 20,000 seafarers waiting for news of an agreement to reopen the crucial shipping corridor.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Connie served as a navigator on a bomber crew in World War II, and earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses for raining death from the sky on Nazi forces throughout Europe.
    David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
  • The company draws on clinical, claims, and behavioral data to identify patients at risk and coordinates support with care navigators, clinical outreach, and palliative care between visits.
    Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 19 May 2026

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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipmate. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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