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as in associate
a person frequently seen in the company of another
the boy, and two others who are known to be his comrades, are wanted for questioning by the police
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as in friend
a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another
we expect to be comrades for the rest of our lives
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as in communist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
a novel about an aging comrade's eventual disenchantment with communism and its excesses
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Recent Examples of comrade
Chapter veterans from five branches of services will honor several hundred comrades from Southern California who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
According to Larry Gloss, citing the Russian death certificate, his son died on April 4, 2024, from massive blood loss during an artillery barrage while trying to assist a wounded comrade.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
In one version of the recurring dream, his Navy SEAL comrade and friend Elliott Miller doesn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury or lose a leg.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
In the sequel, Maverick has come to his old comrade seeking advice.
—Beatrice Loayza, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
According to Larry Gloss, citing the Russian death certificate, his son died on April 4, 2024, from massive blood loss during an artillery barrage while trying to assist a wounded comrade.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
In one version of the recurring dream, his Navy SEAL comrade and friend Elliott Miller doesn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury or lose a leg.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
In the sequel, Maverick has come to his old comrade seeking advice.
—Beatrice Loayza, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comrade
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This is the type of visa required to enroll in a degree program, including associates degrees, bachelor's degrees, masters degrees, and doctorates.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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Jean-Pierre is one of many associates who was close to the former president when whispers of his cognitive decline came to a head during a June 2024 debate in which the Democrat struggled to make sense.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
4 June 2025
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Researchers found that those with a friend perceived the hill as less steep.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey.—
Memoir Nation
June 9,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant Heslov was basically a reproduction of the 2005 film, which chronicled CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s heroic crusade against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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In a very short period of time, Trump had decided to go back in time to roughly 100 years ago when Europe meant nothing to us other than rapacious capitalists and communists all out to get us and drag us in to their nefarious ways.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
27 May 2025
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Those discussions were illuminating, and Microsoft’s recent Work Trend Index (also covered by my colleague Melody Brue) suggests a desire to figure this out.—
Jason Andersen,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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An additional 250 of their colleagues across the agency endorsed the declaration without using their names.—
Calvin Woodward,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Those three in particular have quite the fanbase on X with Curiosity’s account touting more than 4 million followers, Perseverance and its little flying buddy Ingenuity have more than 2.9 million followers and Voyager nearly 900,000.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2025
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The world’s richest person, once first buddy to the world’s most powerful man, is now trying to tap the brakes on the very public feud that erupted shortly after Musk left Donald Trump’s presidential administration.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
13 June 2025
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So much for the economists, socialists and politicians.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Democrats have taken to using the f-word more and are looking for leadership, once again, in an 83-year-old socialist, Bernie Sanders, joined this time by a 35-year-old socialist sidekick, in the person of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.—
The Editors,
National Review,
29 Apr. 2025
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One was an indictment in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III, detailing how Ela and her husband, Forde, and several other accomplices raided a Benedictine priory in 1321.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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Palm Springs accomplice fled to Europe after supplying ingredient for bomb Daniel Park allegedly helped Guy Edward Bartkus, the bombing suspect, secure 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor that can be used to construct homemade bombs.—
Liam Dillon,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Inside, they were crowded into the hallways, waiting to see loved ones among the 200 detainees being held in crowded basement facilities, said Elaina Jung Hee Vermeulen, a lawyer and Skadden fellow at California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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In walks a fellow who can sing and dance, who can memorize a script backward and forward in a few days, and who absolutely looks the part – but who can’t act it, not really.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
12 June 2025
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comrade. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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