Thesaurus results for NAVIGATE

navigate

verb

ˈna-və-ˌgāt

as in to steer

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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as in to sail

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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as in to traverse

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 navigate Artistic director Gerhard Maier is busy applying the finishing touches to this year’s edition of Seriencamp and Maier is thinking hard about creative ways by which producers can navigate their way through some hard times. —

Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 May 2026 Union workers shouted their demands, and riders navigated lengthy commutes. —

Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Strong legal and compliance professionals should be right by their business partner’s side to help navigate and guide that. —

Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Cars face a good chance of getting covered in construction dust, and some stores require navigating a maze of barriers to reach. —

Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for navigate

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In the 90th minute, Adrian Marin delivered a driving cross into the box, and Martín Ojeda got just enough of his head on the ball to steer it home, sealing the dramatic victory.

— Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Instead, the cabinet secretary taking the lead on steering the world’s most consequential bilateral ties has been Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who met his Chinese counterpart in Seoul ahead of the summit in Beijing.

— Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 13 May 2026