navigating

verb

present participle of navigate
1
as in steering
to operate or control the course of the hours of training that are required before a student pilot is allowed to navigate an airplane solo

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2
as in sailing
to travel on water in a vessel the months that were once required to navigate around South America in the days before the Panama Canal

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3
as in traversing
to make one's way through, across, or over it will take some effort to navigate that stretch of hills, but we can do it

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Recent Examples of navigating Athens joins Georgia towns navigating Flock On Friday, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department announced the termination of Nick Barker, the Criminal Intelligence Analyst Supervisor and a non-sworn civilian employee for misusing Flock technology. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Doing so can cultivate a deeper connection to ourselves and others—and ultimately greater resilience and flexibility in navigating uncertainty. — Susan Parsons, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 But why sell so soon after successfully navigating all that construction red tape? — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026 Hedge is riding shotgun and navigating, neck bent over two iPhones, the glow lighting his face from below. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026 So here are 11 best practices for navigating French culture while traveling in the City of Light to illuminate it all. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2026 Hosted by former The Bachelorette co-lead and The Traitors season three winner Gabby Windey, Love Overboard followed 22 contestants competing for love while also navigating challenges to gain access to the yacht’s amenities. — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 By the time viewers reach hour 15, the staff has spent an entire shift navigating a cyberattack that forces the emergency department to abandon digital systems, a nonstop influx of Fourth of July emergencies and an abandoned baby. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026 And navigating a website might involve deciphering images or knowing what links to click. — Jennifer D. Kobrin, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigating
  1. steering
  2. sailing
  3. traversing
  4. piloting
  5. cruising
  6. crossing
  7. following
  8. walking
Verb
  • Federal prosecutors say Daejon Labrayae Love spent years presenting himself as an NFL player or wealthy real-estate investor, meeting women on dating apps and eventually steering them toward nonexistent investments.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
  • For their match race Friday, however, while Jackman was steering the Australian boat alongside regular driver Tom Slingsby, Reynolds joined his fellow Canadians to take the wheel alongside driver Giles Scott.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of steering
Verb
  • The tanker was sailing in the southern shipping lane close to the Omani coast, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said in a post on Tuesday, Asia time.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the language, always extraordinarily resilient, is again sailing toward new horizons in the 21st century.
    — Ilan Stavans, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of sailing
Verb
  • And yet the nugget of knowledge from his vast experience of traversing 120 yards (110 metres) via two 60-yard lengths in a trench – dug 4ft deep and 3ft wide in a Welsh field – filled with murky, mucky river water is not a tip about technique.
    — Rob Tanner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In a satiric short video, Rabid Dogs, 2002, for example, white-collar workers dress upas rapacious canines, clutching Burberry bags in their mouths and traversing cubicles on all fours.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of traversing
Verb
  • Christopher Amling, Gabriel Edwards' uncle, said that his nephew was piloting the helicopter that went down.
    — Catherine Bouvet, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But Deloitte's 2025 Emerging Technology Trends research found that while 38% of organizations are piloting agentic solutions, only 11% are actually running them in production.
    — Krupesh Bhat, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of piloting
Verb
  • Miami took control of the game from its first offensive drive and never looked back, subbing in the backups by the end of the third quarter and cruising to its first win of the season.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2026
  • However, Scholes noted parts of the industry, such as river cruising, aren’t feeling those same impacts.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of cruising
Verb
  • On an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, to meet a friend at a cafe.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Her vehicle was eventually logged crossing into Mexico by the Department of Homeland Security.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of crossing
Verb
  • Observers say the case was significant to the city's freedom of association and it has been closely watched amid the city's drastic political changes following massive anti-government protests in 2019.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Relations with Morocco have been strained following reports that its government had facilitated the mass border crossing, but Sánchez tamped down the speculation.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of following
Verb
  • The high resolution scan creates a virtual 3D model of the site with an accuracy range of less than 2 centimeters, and involves walking around the archaeological site with an instrument called a LiDAR scanner.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Michigan and Indiana allow public walking along portions of their Great Lakes shorelines, while Wisconsin’s law remains less clear.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of walking

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“Navigating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigating. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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