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The ship was refurbished in 2019 and offers 10 dining options, a full-service Starbucks, and a casino for late-night bonding around the blackjack table with your new shipmates.
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipmate
Noun
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The explosion aboard the Sultana was followed by the state's second-deadliest steamboat disaster, the destruction of the Miami by fire on the Arkansas River, with a loss of as many as 200 passengers and crewmen.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Dec. 2024
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The sole survivor The wreck claimed the lives of 28 of its 29 crewman, leaving only Dennis Hale alive.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Nov. 2024
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The late former president may have served honorably as a sailor, but his instincts as president were to shrink and deprioritize America’s naval forces.—
Steven Wills,
National Review,
11 Jan. 2025
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Despite influencing multiple books and movies, in many ways, the sailors' real-life tale is even more harrowing.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
9 Dec. 2024
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According to the Navy, the seaman was born June 15, 1918, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Sure enough, just as deckhand Otto Knottnerus turned on his camera, the whales leaped out of the water – at exactly the same time, in sync with one another.—
Laylan Connelly,
Orange County Register,
3 Dec. 2024
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The captain and a deckhand had been rescued earlier in the week after the boat became stranded, Hawley indicated.—
Alex Nitzberg,
Fox News,
22 Oct. 2024
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When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.—
Jenna West,
The Athletic,
6 Aug. 2024
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Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.—
Phil Jensen,
The Mercury News,
25 June 2024
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Thursday’s launch then got pushed back by about half an hour when a boat strayed into the keep-away zone designed offshore for mariners’ safety.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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The fierce mariners who swept out of Scandinavia in the late 700s and marauded for centuries through the North Atlantic and Baltic?—
Timothy Farrington,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The article makes one wonder how things in the New World could have been better supported if early seafarers had spent time learning more about the island.—
Smithsonian magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Moana is once again tasked with going beyond the island of Motunui, now in the hopes of finding other island communities — but this time, she'll also be joined by a crew of unlikely seafarers.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Dec. 2024
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Success planning provides each student with a navigator who co-creates a unique plan of action with each child, their family, educators, and other caring adults.—
Libby Schaaf,
TIME,
13 Jan. 2025
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Other analyses of career navigation programs explain specific elements like the role of career navigators.—
Bruno V. Manno,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipmate. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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