adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer Every adventurer needs a team But Rome wasn’t built in a day, or, The Secret of Weepstone wasn’t built by one man in a garage with a Radio Shack TRS80 Model III. Curtis Silver, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025 The passengers included Stockton Rush, 61, cofounder of OceanGate; Hamish Harding, 58, an adventurer and owner of Action Aviation; Paul Henri Nargeoloet, 77, a veteran Titanic explorer from France; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48; and his son Suleman, 19. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025 That’s the idea proposed by BecomingX, a learning and development company co-founded by adventurer Bear Grylls. Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
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Noun
  • There’s a solid, mega-meaty take at the mini-chain Schnipper’s; a terrific vegan version that used to be on the menu at Superiority Burger could have converted even the most skeptical snob or carnivore.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no nice way to say it—I’m a biscuit snob.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Is Cherry a scheming social climber?
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Because, my goodness, they’re set out on so much land — each the personal playgrounds of ambitious chefs and nouveau-riche social climbers, reveling in the Custom of the Country.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In this demo expedition, his group deployed hyper-tech robotic explorers to map a lava tube on a Mars analog site, in the Spanish Canary Islands, which, like the Hawaiian archipelago, were produced via a series of volcanic eruptions.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The sight of Morro Rock has greeted countless visitors to this part of California’s Central Coast for centuries, from the European explorers who came to the area enticed by its calm waters, to the modern-day surfers who ride the swells that break outside the bay.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • As a traveler, she's visited destinations such as Hawaii and Mexico, especially loving trips out in nature.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Searches for Christmas and New Year’s getaways show travelers are looking for warm international locales to escape the cold.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1880s, Torrey is said to have been named after one of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, Colonel Torrey.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The group had already connected itself to the Black Sabbath smash via tons of live performances, and thankfully, the fans of the heavy metal pioneers were able to work with the Prince of Darkness before his death in July of this year – and fans may get to hear the cut soon.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The advisory, issued on August 20 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), urged agencies to scan chargers, roadside weather stations, and traffic cameras for rogue radios or other components embedded in inverters and batteries.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That included everything from a sniper-like rogue to a warlock who serves Death itself.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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