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someone who is the first to do something or be somewhere
The deep-sea explorer set out to discover shipwrecks long lost to history.
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Then there are the polymaths, restless and curious explorers who move between sectors and organizations.
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Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Once the sole activity of intrepid explorers only, frontier tourism—or going where no one (or, in reality, hardly anyone) has gone before—is on the rise.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
But not long after setting up San Geronimo III near the Santa Cruz River, the Spanish explorers encountered an Indigenous community known as the Sobaipuri O’odham.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
In 1541, Spanish explorers established a settlement called San Geronimo III in present-day southern Arizona.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Scientists are using robotic explorers on Mars to understand how dust and wind might impact future human missions to the planet’s surface.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
The explorers tasked with establishing a permanent Martian base will also need to pack strategically.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2024
Innovators – both entrepreneurs and corporate explorers – are iconoclasts, willing to challenge the status quo and rewrite the rules.
—Andrew Binns, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Sitting in meditation, lost in ecstatic dance, or fasting and praying for days, these explorers of inner space received profound insights into our nature and our relationship to the rest of reality.
—Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Once the sole activity of intrepid explorers only, frontier tourism—or going where no one (or, in reality, hardly anyone) has gone before—is on the rise.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
But not long after setting up San Geronimo III near the Santa Cruz River, the Spanish explorers encountered an Indigenous community known as the Sobaipuri O’odham.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
In 1541, Spanish explorers established a settlement called San Geronimo III in present-day southern Arizona.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Scientists are using robotic explorers on Mars to understand how dust and wind might impact future human missions to the planet’s surface.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
The explorers tasked with establishing a permanent Martian base will also need to pack strategically.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2024
Innovators – both entrepreneurs and corporate explorers – are iconoclasts, willing to challenge the status quo and rewrite the rules.
—Andrew Binns, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Sitting in meditation, lost in ecstatic dance, or fasting and praying for days, these explorers of inner space received profound insights into our nature and our relationship to the rest of reality.
—Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
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