as in classmate
a person who is on the same team as someone else
They have been teammates for several years. She's very popular among her teammates.
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Recent Examples of teammate
His longtime teammate in stalwart offensive tackle Marshal Yanda also came up short.
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
Some of his teammates can understand why a few people are through with seeing him in the final game of the season.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
The athlete was outed by a teammate in a previous lawsuit.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2025
Unlike LeBron’s team in Cleveland, Durant’s Oklahoma City teammates were a group of young stars on the rise—and the Warriors were a loaded unit that, the season before Durant joined them, had won a record-breaking 73 games.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
Some of his teammates can understand why a few people are through with seeing him in the final game of the season.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
The athlete was outed by a teammate in a previous lawsuit.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2025
Unlike LeBron’s team in Cleveland, Durant’s Oklahoma City teammates were a group of young stars on the rise—and the Warriors were a loaded unit that, the season before Durant joined them, had won a record-breaking 73 games.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teammate
Noun
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But seeing her classmates come together around the issue was exciting, the student said.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2025
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Early on, her allegiances are torn between her support of her deaf classmates and the feminist win represented by a woman being chosen to lead the university.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Last month, my colleague Mike Winters profiled a couple who successfully manage 15 credit cards in order to maximize their perks.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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State subsidies for electric trucks are a key part of California’s strategy, as my colleague Russ Mitchell reports.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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During all of this, Mark and friends are helped along their journey by some very strange road markers — namely, themselves.—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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Frustration: Taylor Swift and her famous friends displayed every emotion.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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So the topline findings are that growing up poor in the United States is particularly consequential for your adult economic outcomes, undermining this idea that the US, relative to peer nations, is some land of great upward economic opportunity.—
Abdallah Fayyad,
Vox,
2 Feb. 2025
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The Sundance online platform has allowed for a more democratic festival experience (feature film tickets cost $35) when stacked against its peer events, which are reverent to theaters only and in less accessible locations.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Teammate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teammate. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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