as in untrodden
not having been traveled over or through
the team of scientists will use dogsleds to travel across the pathless Antarctic wilderness
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Recent Examples of pathless
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
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Leah Hall, Country Living, 5 Jan. 2023
Somewhere on the rugged, pathless hills of Big Bend National Park, under the sweltering Texas sun, a singular tree stands apart from the rest.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
Leah Hall, Country Living, 5 Jan. 2023
Somewhere on the rugged, pathless hills of Big Bend National Park, under the sweltering Texas sun, a singular tree stands apart from the rest.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
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Black Emperor had been re-landscaping post-rock to make room for string sections—but Richter’s universal laments, in which yearning piano and string figures twirled atop electronic murmurs, illuminated an untrodden path for solo composers.Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2024
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Or that art may be the last untrodden and inviolable way of the psyche remaining to us?John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
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Explore the resort’s 100 miles of trails sprawled across 37,000 acres of pristine Montana wilderness by dog sled, horseback, downhill ski or snow tube before gathering around the nightly campfire to share stories over s’mores.Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Opening up the process has raised questions about attributing asteroid names to students whose future is still an untraveled road, however.Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
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Furthermore, much of the Sino-Russian border is remote and untraveled, making arms transfers difficult to detect.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
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“Pathless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathless. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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