adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer The magnificent mountain landscape, pristine streams, abundant wildlife, and invigorating fresh air that inspire you to slow down and savor your surroundings have all drawn recreational adventurers for decades. Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 6 June 2025 Unlike bustling theme park rides, the gentle, slow rotation of the Flyer is incredibly smooth, eliminating any potential motion sickness or fear of heights for little adventurers. Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 On an east to west traverse of Antarctica in 2005, White Desert co-founder Patrick Woodhead was so captivated by the rugged beauty of the interior that he and his wife, Robyn, were inspired to give other intrepid adventurers the chance to experience it. Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025 The first of their kind in the state, these rustic lodgings afford adventurers comfortable (if not luxurious) places to overnight during mountain-biking, hiking, and fishing forays deep into the wilderness, says Shaun Deutschlander. Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
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Noun
  • Lisette Olivera assumes the mantle as Jess Valenzuela, a history buff and puzzle snob working odd jobs in New Orleans and mourning the recent death of her mother.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
  • On their first day in town, treat your food snob to a fireworks show of Dallas at its most sophisticated.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • There actually is something at stake for these women, which frees them up for a desperate kind of humor, in the vein of those plucky social climbers in a screwball comedy from an earlier era.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • From the dynastic Dupree family to the conniving social climbers bent on usurping their place at the top of the social hierarchy, the historic new daytime drama is all about its characters.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Our relationship brings to mind explorer Phyllis Munday who, along with her husband Don, climbed many peaks in the southern Coast Mountains and elsewhere across British Columbia between the 1910s and the 1940s.
    Sarah Boon June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • Cooper Creek, named somewhat erroneously by early British explorer Charles Sturt, is hardly a creek.
    Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 June 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
  • This idyllic destination is small and remote, creating a sense of exclusivity that appeals to luxury homeowners and travelers.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • For more information on traffic conditions, travelers can: Download the Mass511 mobile app or visit www.mass511.com to view live cameras, travel times, real-time traffic conditions, and project information before setting out on the road.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Mughal Empire’s hunger for land taxes, for instance, drove an assault on eastern India’s forests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which redistributed land to pioneer cultivators willing to undertake that work of settlement.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Additional investors include Fred Moll, the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical and pioneer of robotic surgery, who has joined the company’s strategic advisory board.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The baby girl had gone rogue after at first doing the same.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • In recent years, Morgan has appeared in a variety of projects, including The Good Wife, Invincible and The Boys, typically playing a similar smooth-talking, charming rogue.
    Kirsten Acuna, People.com, 16 June 2025

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