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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipmate
Noun
  • Reid along with crewman Aaron Fordy, went out in search of the missing pup.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • But, at one point, a crewman on a what looked like a cargo ship raised his hand.
    Sohel Uddin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For 500 years, from Giotto to Eugène Delacroix, painting told human-interest stories—a baby in a manger, desperate sailors on a raft.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • New Delhi lodged a diplomatic protest with Washington after three Indian sailors were killed in a US military strike on a tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Inspired by Portugal’s traditional and contemporary flavors, Baleia also pays respect to the country’s seamen—generations of fishers, sailors and whalers—who traveled the globe and returned with culinary influence, especially from North Africa, China and the Caribbean.
    Jillian Dara, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • In the season 10 finale, Nathan and deckhand Gael Cameron decided to give their rocky relationship another chance, but urged caution.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • In May 1971, his wife’s father, Henry Fletcher, enlisted in the Navy to become a riverine boat coxswain, and in June 1975, his wife, Bobbie, enlisted in the Navy as a cryptologic technician.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • The Longhorns' First Varsity Eight won its race to clinch the title behind coxswain Amy Werner, edging out Stanford by less than three seconds.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Dow also said the safest way to make it out of a channel is to follow the markers, which experienced mariners know to look for.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • At sea, celestial navigation, which came into its own in the late 1700s, requires algorithms to crunch the inputs from a sextant that allows mariners to determine their position on the surface of a sphere.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Shipping and seafarers' associations said Monday that political leaders had yet to give enough detail on the agreement to ensure safe transit for vessels through the strait, which is the only way in or out of the Gulf.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • In May, two seafarers aboard a cargo vessel anchored in the Bay of Port-au-Prince were kidnapped after gunmen boarded their ship.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • But for a nation of navigators, there is no course a team this talented cannot plot.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Community health workers, patient navigators and care management teams should be proactively identifying high-risk Medicaid patients with chronic medical issues.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipmate. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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