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as in explorer
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as in gamesman
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Recent Examples of adventurer
Academy Award winners Fraser and Weisz will reprise their roles as adventurer Rick O’Connell and Egyptologist Evelyn O’Connell in the movie, plot details for which are being kept — not unironically — under wraps.
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Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
The result is an often exhilarating, often disturbing and always poignant tale of an artist and adventurer who lived to challenge the limits of what humans could do.
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Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
His journey to becoming a businessman, father, adventurer, esteemed surfboard shaper, and legendary surfer – he was featured on the cover of Surfer magazine in 1962 and has a spot on Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach – began as a student at the University of South Dakota.
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Michelle Breier,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
Koch is a 47-year-old engineer and adventurer—an ice and rock climber, a surfer, and a triathlete who participated in the first all-woman space walk and who lived for 328 days on the ISS.
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Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
The result is an often exhilarating, often disturbing and always poignant tale of an artist and adventurer who lived to challenge the limits of what humans could do.
—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
His journey to becoming a businessman, father, adventurer, esteemed surfboard shaper, and legendary surfer – he was featured on the cover of Surfer magazine in 1962 and has a spot on Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach – began as a student at the University of South Dakota.
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Michelle Breier,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
Koch is a 47-year-old engineer and adventurer—an ice and rock climber, a surfer, and a triathlete who participated in the first all-woman space walk and who lived for 328 days on the ISS.
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Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
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Those snobs say the studio audience or, heaven forbid, the laugh track, do all the work.
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I'mPhaedra Trethan, a pizza snob from New Jersey who doesn't mind paying more for a good pie.
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Corneliani updated its sartorial proposition via functional details befitting a very dapper explorer.
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Design practices Not knowing ahead of time what lunar explorers may face is an unsure, shuddering proposition.
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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.
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Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
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The stories focused on portraying her as a calculating social climber who only pursued the president’s oldest son to gain access to his wealth, power and celebrity, the Daily Mail also said.
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Set in 1969 Palm Beach, the Apple TV series follows Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, a spry social climber eager to infiltrate high society.
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Affordable July 4 destinations July 4 may be a peak travel period, but travelers can still snag some solid deals for a beach vacation.
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Weekend travelers also come in by road from Guadalajara.
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Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
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They have been written to guide the unwitting discoverer through this minefield.
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New episodes drop every other Thursday, kicking off on June 11 with biochemist and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, who helped revolutionize gene editing and biology as co-discoverer of the CRISPR-Cas9 system.
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
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My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.
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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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