messmate

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Recent Examples of messmate But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot. BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019 As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate. Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
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Noun
  • 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
  • And his castaway shipmate has marvelously oversized whiskers, formidable fangs and a ravenous appetite.
    Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Sitting outside the stadium, eating lunch with her classmates, J’Averi Yates, a student at Hogan Prep Elementary, had her teeth cleaned and said the best part was getting to see the football stadium.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Holding a Camera, Holding Dignity This truth came back to me recently in a conversation with my friend Daniel Levin, an Associate Professor of Photography at Ohio’s Cuyahoga Community College and my former classmate at RIT.
    Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Limit use to short sessions: Treat the toy like TV, fun in moderation, not a substitute for playmates.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Four dogs hoping for a game of fetch have melted hearts on the internet after trying to recruit the youngest member of their family as their new playmate.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Former Chiefs safety Justin Reid was watching his former teammates and offered an encouraging word.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Having his slick-fielding pal Ha-Seong Kim as a teammate again seemed to bring out the best in Jurickson Profar in their first game together with the Atlanta Braves.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even some of Barrett’s liberal colleagues have said the Constitution and the rule of law could be at risk.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Wollweber and his colleagues wanted to see if the Lokiarchaea’s tubulin-like proteins behaved like the eukaryotic versions.
    Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During the purges of the late 1930s, a new generation of young and ambitious politicians and officials quickly arrived to take the places of Stalin’s purged comrades.
    ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Garraty is forced to watch several of his comrades' executions while fighting for his own life with a gun to his head.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the reel, a border collie seems to have taken on an unusual new habit from its feline housemate.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the weeks before she was murdered, Goncalves recounted a series of unnerving events to Mortensen and a second surviving housemate, according to a police report released last month.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Messmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messmate. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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