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as in to traverse
to make one's way through, across, or over
it will take some effort to navigate that stretch of hills, but we can do it
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Recent Examples of navigate
Mental health considerations have become paramount as writers navigate the pressure to maintain constant visibility while still producing their core product — books.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
This is not one of Kansas coach Bill Self’s better teams, as even the Hall of Famer navigates the same types of problems that hound Dixon’s team.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2025
For the past 46 years, runners have navigated the scenic Lowcountry of Kiawah Island, a barrier island near Charleston that has an average elevation of only six feet above sea level.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Councilmember Lisa Kaplan said Milstein takes a careful process when navigating balancing a budget by examining which programs work, and which do not.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
This is not one of Kansas coach Bill Self’s better teams, as even the Hall of Famer navigates the same types of problems that hound Dixon’s team.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2025
For the past 46 years, runners have navigated the scenic Lowcountry of Kiawah Island, a barrier island near Charleston that has an average elevation of only six feet above sea level.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Councilmember Lisa Kaplan said Milstein takes a careful process when navigating balancing a budget by examining which programs work, and which do not.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigate
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Each year, the pharmaceutical industry spends $6 billion in direct-to-consumer advertising to flood the airwaves with commercials that steer patients to the most expensive medications, despite cheaper, more effective drugs being on the market.—
Dick Durbin,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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Most important, the evening felt like an exciting and risky experiment at an institution that has otherwise steered a conservative line during this interregnum season without a music director.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Holland America's Westerdam will sail round-trip from Seattle, departing on Aug. 31, 2025, and returning on Sept. 28, 2025.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2025
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But on the next Washington drive, officials made a questionable pass interference call when an uncatchable ball sailed high over a receiver’s head.—
Mark Purdy,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Others had traversed multiple countries by bus, and yet others had crowded for months into shelters and local hotels hoping for confirmation of an asylum appointment via the mobile app, CBP One, that the Biden administration had utilized since early 2023 to ease the process of applying for asylum.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Every day, tens of thousands of flights traverse U.S. airspace with over two million passenger lives depending on the FAA's ability to ensure that every airplane is airworthy and lands safely at its destination.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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The fatal crash Pino, who lives in Galloway Glen in Kendall and is president of State Street Realty, a Doral real estate agency, was piloting 12 teenage girls and his wife back to their second home at the gated Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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But with 50 or so volunteers helping plant native vegetation as part of the Adopt a Flower program, and assistance from local youth groups to pilot the wetlands project, work around the lake is coming along quickly.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2025
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For more than a decade, a legal fight over who gets access to Oswego Lake has pitted the wealthy enclave against two would-be lake users who argue the public should be able to swim and boat there.—
Kale Williams,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Some shippers, however, have argued that the rules could be economically devastating to boating and shipping industries.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Binational co-manufacturing sees many products crossing the border multiple times in different phases of production.—
Julian Palombo,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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Currently, Disney owns two No. 1 weekends in 2025 with its prequel Mufasa which is crossing $600M worldwide off a $200M production cost.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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Before the action began, the proverbial ball was in Robert Lewandowski's court, who led the table with nine goals, followed by his Barcelona team-mate Raphinha with eight and Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy with seven.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
The Athletic,
30 Jan. 2025
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The faults at 6:10 p.m. and again at 6:11 p.m. coincided with two flashes in the vicinity of the transmission lines seen in a video captured by a camera at an Arco gas station in the moments before the Eaton fire began, followed by flames near the base of high-voltage transmission towers.—
Ivan Penn,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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Thompson was killed while walking to an investor meeting in midtown Manhattan.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
24 Jan. 2025
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More companies will be walking down the aisle together.—
Louis Biscotti,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Navigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigate. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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