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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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Recent Examples of explorers
Future human explorers will have to weather the dusty elements as well.
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Mini hand and foot massages are also available for young explorers.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Deep Blue Sea—Learn about our oceans while on submarine Sea Lab Alpha with underwater explorers Marina and Reef.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 6 Dec. 2024
The collection includes a one-piece that was originally built to send explorers to the highest mountains in the world.
—Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
The weather service began to include wind chill in their forecasts in the early 1970s, several decades after Antarctic explorers first published research about it in the late 1930s.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
In 1681, La Salle sent two explorers to search for the remains of the ship.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
Despite these realities, hosts of explorers have claimed to have found the legendary ship.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
My first guess was MARCO POLO, VIKING, PIONEER and VOYAGER as in a group of explorers, but that left me one away from a group.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Mini hand and foot massages are also available for young explorers.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Deep Blue Sea—Learn about our oceans while on submarine Sea Lab Alpha with underwater explorers Marina and Reef.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 6 Dec. 2024
The collection includes a one-piece that was originally built to send explorers to the highest mountains in the world.
—Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
The weather service began to include wind chill in their forecasts in the early 1970s, several decades after Antarctic explorers first published research about it in the late 1930s.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
In 1681, La Salle sent two explorers to search for the remains of the ship.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
Despite these realities, hosts of explorers have claimed to have found the legendary ship.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
My first guess was MARCO POLO, VIKING, PIONEER and VOYAGER as in a group of explorers, but that left me one away from a group.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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