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Free sign upThe phrase "a mate in a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a friend or companion in a specific situation or location.
Example: "I met a mate in a coffee shop yesterday, and we had a great conversation."
Alternatives: "a friend in a" or "a companion in a".
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She once saw an engineer and a mate in a fistfight on deck.
David Buss, of the University of Texas, demonstrated experimentally what most people know intuitively that women value high status in a mate in a way that men do not.
The Lobster, which screened this morning, is a dystopian tale of a future where single people must find a mate in a creepy hotel within a certain time or face transformation into wild animals and, even those who didn't like it, can hardly call it a bid for the mainstream.
Besides, nobody -- male or female -- went to Dartmouth thinking "Oh, this is a GREAT place to find a mate in a really uncomplicated manner".
"We know that we have these kind of ideal preferences for what we'd want in a mate in a perfect world.
This necessarily introduces a new dynamic: you are biologically compelled to act out a social behavior (planning a family, looking for a mate) in a way that your male and non-child-seeking peers do not.
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We found that mate value consistently predicted the design of a mate in an unbudgeted task, whereas we found more mixed results in the budgeted task.
Tonight he observes a male alligator calling for a mate in the Florida Everglades.
London is Andy's playground and he's found a mate in Lord Covington, an easily impressed man played by Peter Serafinowicz, famous for appearing in every television show, ever.
Many paintings show earthly lovers experiencing comparable emotions: in one a woman rages with longing for an absent mate; in another a near-nude ruler submits to an eroticized rubdown from a squad of masseurs.
To help steer the ship of state, Mr Harper hired a seasoned first mate in Kevin Lynch, a senior financial official recalled from a post at the IMF to head the civil service.
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