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as in traveller
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as in imposter
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Recent Examples of adventurer
Space travel is heating up, both by NASA and private enterprises, with bold adventurers and scientists looking to eventually send humans to Mars.
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Sarah Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
But the talk show host wasn't going to just leave Blair as the show's only armpit adventurer, either.
—EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
The five victims included adventurers Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet; father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood; and pilot Stockton Rush, who co-founded OceanGate, the company operating the Titan.
—Adam Carlson, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
With his distinctive striped coat and bright, curious eyes, Gizmo is the epitome of a little adventurer.
—The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2025
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Sarah Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
But the talk show host wasn't going to just leave Blair as the show's only armpit adventurer, either.
—EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
The five victims included adventurers Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet; father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood; and pilot Stockton Rush, who co-founded OceanGate, the company operating the Titan.
—Adam Carlson, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
With his distinctive striped coat and bright, curious eyes, Gizmo is the epitome of a little adventurer.
—The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
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Lisette Olivera assumes the mantle as Jess Valenzuela, a history buff and puzzle snob working odd jobs in New Orleans and mourning the recent death of her mother.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
14 Dec. 2022
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On their first day in town, treat your food snob to a fireworks show of Dallas at its most sophisticated.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
23 Mar. 2022
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Where Huang’s wardrobe for Oz emphasizes his position as a clumsy social climber, aspiring to classic mafia masculinity but too crass to fit in with the old-money elite, Sofia represents a different kind of outsider.—
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2024
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Smith starred as Joyce Chilvers, a small-town social climber in postwar Northern England whose hunger to be accepted by the elite locals isn’t helped by her dotty mother nor her underachieving podiatrist husband Gilbert, played by Michael Palin.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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One of the world’s leading storytellers on the International Space Station’s modern-day space odyssey told me that the ISS must be saved for explorers of the future.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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In 1935, American explorers piloted a balloon called Explorer II to the stratosphere.—
Carl Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
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Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.—
Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2021
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Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2019
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For the fifth straight year, Orlando led the way for domestic travelers flying out of CLT.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2025
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What’s one mistake that travelers often make when visiting Champagne? Thinking that champagne is made mostly in Reims or Épernay.—
Jennifer Kester,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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William Arruda is a keynote speaker, author, and personal branding pioneer.—
William Arruda,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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In the mid-1960s Ralph opened Lucinda Byre, a boutique selling clothes from multiple brands, including miniskirt pioneer Mary Quant, in the center of Liverpool that later expanded across the North of England.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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The sky is awash with radio-frequency interference (RFI), but thanks to two astronomers who tracked down a stray TV broadcast reflected off a passing airplane, there may be a new way to wipe out some of the rogue signals that plague our radio telescopes.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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And so the two women selfishly agree to share the rogue doubles, while Mickey 18 plots a coup.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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