adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer The project takes place over the course of a year, showing the preparation required for the arduous experience as the climbers train alongside such prominent figures as Free Solo subject Alex Honnold and renowned adventurer Philip Henderson. Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025 The globetrotting adventurer was previously portrayed onscreen in two films by Angelina Jolie and in another by Alicia Vikander. Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 The Game of Thrones alumna trades her dagger for a pair of guns as adventurer Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider series adaptation. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025 For the intrepid adventurer who is up for the journey, the Narrows is a worthy quest. Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
Noun
  • There’s a solid, mega-meaty take at the mini-chain Schnipper’s; a terrific vegan version that used to be on the menu at Superiority Burger could have converted even the most skeptical snob or carnivore.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no nice way to say it—I’m a biscuit snob.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The actress was best known for her role as snobby social climber Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, the BBC comedy that ran for five seasons between 1990 and 1995.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • British star Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as social climber Hyacinth Bucket in sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Architects and city planners, sign-makers and deep-sea explorers adapted the new light for all kinds of specialized uses.
    Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The explorer Ernest Shackleton is a hero of yours.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • At PortMiami on Thursday, several travelers express frustration over how the outbreak was managed by the cruise line.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Other cruise line travelers can also choose a four-night sail from Miami to Cozumel or three-day West Coast trips embarking from Los Angeles and sailing to Ensenada, Mexico.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Past winners of the Nobel physics prize include some of the most influential figures in the history of science, such as Albert Einstein, Pierre and Marie Curie, Max Planck and Niels Bohr, himself a pioneer of quantum theory.
    USA Today, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The character is Marty Mauser, loosely inspired by real-life Jewish American tennis table pioneer Marty Reisman, who died in 2012.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rogue planet, which does not orbit any star, is called Cha 1107-7626 and is outside of our solar system, 620 light-years from Earth in the Chamaeleon constellation.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Their findings indicate that the formation of at least some rogue planets may bear a similarity to that of stars.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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