as in untrodden
not having been traveled over or through the team of scientists will use dogsleds to travel across the pathless Antarctic wilderness

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Recent Examples of pathless There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. Leah Hall, Country Living, 5 Jan. 2023 Somewhere on the rugged, pathless hills of Big Bend National Park, under the sweltering Texas sun, a singular tree stands apart from the rest. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
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  • Black Emperor had been re-landscaping post-rock to make room for string sections—but Richter’s universal laments, in which yearning piano and string figures twirled atop electronic murmurs, illuminated an untrodden path for solo composers.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Or that art may be the last untrodden and inviolable way of the psyche remaining to us?
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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  • For water enthusiasts, Dominica recently unveiled a groundbreaking 32-nautical-mile kayak trail encircling the island—a six-day journey through pristine waters.
    Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Kimpton Grand Roatán Resort & Spa is situated on the pristine shores of West Bay Beach in Roatán, Honduras.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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  • Opening up the process has raised questions about attributing asteroid names to students whose future is still an untraveled road, however.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Furthermore, much of the Sino-Russian border is remote and untraveled, making arms transfers difficult to detect.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023

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“Pathless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathless. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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