How to Use pathfinder in a Sentence

pathfinder

noun

• This isn’t the last lift for the core stage pathfinder, either.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Her mother was a pathfinder for her in more than the United Way.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2020
• Find more details about the Pathfinder on Phil Pauley’s website.
  — Duncan Geere, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2011
• To that end, the core stage of the pathfinder Ariane 6 rocket has reached the European launch site in French Guiana, the agency says.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
• The nipples on the tetas of the nanny Fidelia were the navigator, the pathfinder, the salvation of all those who lost their way.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• There are pathfinder replicas made for all major flight parts.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• LISA Pathfinder is now little more than debris floating in the vastness of space.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2017
• Only decades later did Hay receive his due as a gay-rights pathfinder.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• Medina-Chevez works as an Uber driver, police say, and left home in a 2008 dark blue Nissan Pathfinder to pick up a client.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 May 2017
• The Pathfinder struck one vehicle in the rear, causing a seven-car chain reaction crash.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
• There were no satellites back then, no apps to find the enemy or Facebook your wife; there was just a pathfinder and a long stream of GIs who would have looked like a row of green ants from a plane.
  — Mary-Louise Parker, Esquire, 13 June 2012
• The twins are recruits aboard the human ark, which is partly commanded by their father Alec Ryder, the Pathfinder.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2017
• Authorities say Lazo drove the Pathfinder and Gomez sat in the front passenger seat, and the duo passed the handgun between them and took turns firing.
  — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 May 2017
• That may sound like science fiction, but ESA has already sent a pathfinder mission to space to test the technology.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
• Lenski was a pathfinder who followed her youthful passion for art.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2021
• It was launched as a pathfinder for the Moon-orbiting outpost called Gateway, which will eventually form part of the Artemis program.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 15 Nov. 2022
• Ramaphosa called Madikizela-Mandela a giant, a pathfinder, a healer and an eternal beauty.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• First came a tiny pathfinder, Sojourner, that in 1997 showed roving was possible.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2021
• The CubeSat will act as a pathfinder for Gateway, an orbiting lunar outpost that will serve as a way station between Earth and the moon for astronauts.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2022
• Enlarge / Amazon is counting on the Vulcan rocket, a pathfinder for which is shown here, to deliver a large number of satellites into space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
• As a pathfinder, Sanders was responsible for setting up drop zones for airborne troops and landing zones for helicopters.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
• But while so many guitarists and companies alike are chasing the vintage tone of decades past, the French pathfinders at Kernom are exclusively looking toward the future.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Unlike mining outposts and XPrize pathfinders, a moon base seems too big and complex for any single company or nation to operate alone.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2017
• The cryptic but compelling portrayal of a pathfinder president met with wide approval from spectators.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
• Dynetics led the work of building the Space Launch System core stage pathfinder vehicle, which is a life-size, realistic replica of the core stage that crews use to practice moving the core around facilities and test stands.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2020
• Even after the latest financial woes, the development of the new-generation spacecraft remains on the books as does the development of robotic pathfinder missions to the Moon.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2016
• The Gateway will use solar electric propulsion, acting as a pathfinder toward creating deep space transport.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2019
• In the years since Pathfinder, scientists have cataloged more than a dozen factors—from radiation to soil toxins—that make the red planet a death trap for most terrestrial organisms.
  — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
• In fact, the change has already begun as the company moves to become a pathfinder in adapting commercial digital technology to the nation’s military needs.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• For the next decade and a half, the group was a pathfinder in the development of jazz fusion, with Shorter’s works often leading the way in blending funk, rock and world music elements into Weather Report’s colorful musical mix.
  — Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024