as in adventurous
inclined or willing to take risks
not inclined to be adventuresome when it comes to foreign travel, preferring guided bus tours that stick to the beaten path
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Travel After a long career with the FBI, Mary Beth Kepner was looking forward to an adventuresome retirement with her husband, Floyd Spinner.
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Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
Future menu rotations could be even more adventuresome.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Sixty-something art historian and grandmother Lorna Mott Dumas is the novel’s adventuresome test case.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 June 2021
Today’s visitors are often trekkers, the sort of adventuresome people who find Nepal too crowded.
—Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
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Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
Future menu rotations could be even more adventuresome.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Sixty-something art historian and grandmother Lorna Mott Dumas is the novel’s adventuresome test case.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 June 2021
Today’s visitors are often trekkers, the sort of adventuresome people who find Nepal too crowded.
—Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
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“Adventuresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventuresome. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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