as in sailors
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
the pirate captain cried, "Ahoy, me swabbies, 'tis time to hoist the Jolly Roger!"
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Keeping sailors in the same shipyard environment for extended periods can gradually erode motivation and professional engagement regardless of individual resilience.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026 -
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
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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
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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
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“Swabbies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swabbies. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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