adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer With a long career as an adventurer and guide, Phillips has led ski expeditions to the North and South Poles. Julian Dossett, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025 The crew is headed up by Chun Wang, now of Malta, who in addition to being able to fund the mission is an avid adventurer. arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025 Here are five additional pairs of shoes that also provide support for plus-size adventurers. Robin Raven, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025 Along for the ride will be fellow adventurers Eric Philips of Australia, Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway and Rabea Rogge of Germany. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
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Noun
  • Lisette Olivera assumes the mantle as Jess Valenzuela, a history buff and puzzle snob working odd jobs in New Orleans and mourning the recent death of her mother.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
  • On their first day in town, treat your food snob to a fireworks show of Dallas at its most sophisticated.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • From the dynastic Dupree family to the conniving social climbers bent on usurping their place at the top of the social hierarchy, the historic new daytime drama is all about its characters.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Where Huang’s wardrobe for Oz emphasizes his position as a clumsy social climber, aspiring to classic mafia masculinity but too crass to fit in with the old-money elite, Sofia represents a different kind of outsider.
    Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • California’s seascapes are a playground for explorers and adrenaline-seekers.
    Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Users can personalize the prompt by describing features, aesthetic or desired theme—such as space explorer, fantasy warrior or tech ninja.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 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
  • Waynesville Many travelers enjoy browsing shops on a sunny afternoon, and Waynesville's central area is the perfect place to cure the shopping bug.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The Settlement is home to little more than a few island-style rental properties, tiny stores for provisions, and local eateries, meaning most travelers will just be passing through.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • It’s been sweet watching the sound expand overseas, the seeds of inspo traveling way further than the pioneers intended.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Collins went on to join another funk pioneer: George Clinton, whose alternating bands Parliament and Funkadelic were innovating a looser, more improvisational and funnier style that would help define Black music in the ’70s.
    Steve Knopper, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But who among Mike White’s gallery of rogue, evil gays reigns supreme?
    Samantha Allen, Them, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Here, Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler gains the courage to take back her father’s kingdom from the Evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot, with the help of seven dwarfs and a crew of rogue bandits.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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