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Owen Chase, portrayed by Hemsworth in In the Heart of the Sea, was the first mate aboard the Essex.
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Daffy Taffy Amy Sedaris’s wellness mogul character Bethany Welles gifts the captain and crew her special saltwater taffy … which turns out to have psilocybin in it, causing the first mate to trip balls just as the Odyssey finds itself in the eye of a hurricane.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Dellinger said 1018’s first mate died in 2010 after an alligator bite.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Is Below Deck Sailing Yacht's Gary a hero, a villain, or just a very capable first mate?
—Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Daffy Taffy Amy Sedaris’s wellness mogul character Bethany Welles gifts the captain and crew her special saltwater taffy … which turns out to have psilocybin in it, causing the first mate to trip balls just as the Odyssey finds itself in the eye of a hurricane.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Dellinger said 1018’s first mate died in 2010 after an alligator bite.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Is Below Deck Sailing Yacht's Gary a hero, a villain, or just a very capable first mate?
—Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for first mate
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“First mate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20mate. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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