helmsman

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Recent Examples of helmsman Each boat has a crew of five members, consisting of a helmsman, wing-trimmer, flight controller and two grinders. Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025 Each boat has a crew of five members, consisting of a helmsman, wing-trimmer, flight controller and two grinders. Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025 Each boat has a crew of five members, consisting of a helmsman, wing-trimmer, flight controller and two grinders. Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024 From there, Grimes also came aboard The Orville as the ship’s helmsman. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for helmsman
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Noun
  • Listen to this article Chicago police said seven teens were wounded in an overnight shooting at a large gathering in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood after a St. Sabina graduation party, drawing an angry statement from the church’s longtime leader, Father Michael Pfleger.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • Afraid conditions would only worsen, leaders announced in May 2024 their plans to disassemble the chapel, a national historic landmark and popular wedding venue.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Joel, meanwhile, has become Jackson’s construction foreman, which puts him at odds with his sister-in-law, Maria (Rutina Wesley).
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The core idea of this story is that the justice system defaults repeatedly to favoring the voices of authority: the police (who didn’t investigate thoroughly), the foreman (who took the word of the police), and so on.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Stars’ captain, Benn, absolutely plastered Bouchard in the second period with a heavy hit on the forecheck.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 27 May 2025
  • Normally, the Knicks’ captain, floor general and reigning NBA Clutch Player of the Year is on the court when his team is trying to win a game in the final period.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • The violence all allegedly stemmed from a workplace grudge triggered by a $100 equipment bill from his boss for damage to heavy construction equipment, authorities said.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
  • Gavi has no doubts about Luis Enrique’s standing in the game, and is also eternally grateful to his former national team boss.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz admitted to his team at the end of April that his own future was uncertain.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • Gary Oldman plays the acerbic Jackson Lamb, the odoriferous chief of Slough House where MI5 agents who just can’t cut it – or who are being punished for one reason or another – are sent.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The master artisan will also assemble an accessory from the BADURA high leather goods collection, deftly using his hands as tools honed through decades of proficiency and techniques steeped in centuries-old traditions.
    Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Skills build on themselves, so children who don’t master kindergarten phonics or counting could remain behind in future grades.
    Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • Mikkelsen will take the role of mission commander and Philips the role of pilot.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2025
  • The homes of the elite commanders and their families are pristine and conservative.
    Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Ralph Fiennes’s concierge is the director’s natural surrogate, the behind-the-scenes guy who tends to every detail of the hotel’s operation while going to extraordinary lengths to please the guests, even if that means bedding octogenarians.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
  • For a spa-like feel, Sue Kim, director of color marketing at Valspar, suggests the shade Fragile Blue.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025

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“Helmsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helmsman. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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