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Recent Examples of crewman
In 1990, Bryant married Charlie Hobson Dry, an Oklahoma native and former NASA test crewman.
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Anita Gates, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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, 28 Dec. 2024
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
Almost half of the dead were crewmen from the battleship USS Arizona, which sank within minutes after a bomb struck its forward magazine, igniting more than a million pounds of ammunition.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
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Anita Gates, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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, 28 Dec. 2024
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
Almost half of the dead were crewmen from the battleship USS Arizona, which sank within minutes after a bomb struck its forward magazine, igniting more than a million pounds of ammunition.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crewman
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Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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The North Koreans’ former shipmates remembered them showing videos of military parades and their leader, Mr. Kim, giving speeches.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Robert Phillips Deckhand, Below Deck Season 8 This fill-in deckhand made his mark by slagging off Izzy Wouters after she was promoted to lead deckhand over him.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
31 Dec. 2024
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While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved.—
Gina Ragusa,
EW.com,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Three of the Indonesian seamen also spoke separately to The New York Times.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Captains and seamen alike reaped the benefits of having these scientists on board with them.—
Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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From November 2023 until this January, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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But those launches are usually accompanied by airspace and maritime warning notices to ensure pilots and sailors steer clear of the test.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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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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Look at this first-quarter possession: Nembhard is the Pacers’ best on-ball defender and an elite screen navigator.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Opposing big men aren’t skilled screen navigators because they just aren’t used to that being required of them.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2025
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Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson, metallurgist Jennifer Hooper, and master mariner Captain Chris Hearn find evidence exonerating First Officer William Murdoch, long accused of abandoning his post.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
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Hazardous seas also prompted NWS meteorologists to issue a small craft advisory warning inexperienced mariners, especially those in small vessels, against venturing out into the ocean.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from the 1400s to 1600s plundered almost all of them to extinction.—
Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
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Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Crewman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crewman. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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