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as in explorer
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as in gamesman
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Recent Examples of adventurer
Gorging aside, this year’s restaurant week should hold enough attraction for any level of food adventurer.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
When achieving the summit or the darkest depths becomes essential to self-worth, death can become a worthwhile risk for an extreme adventurer.
—Christopher Ferguson, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
The Game of Thrones and X-Men star is decked out as the globe-trotting archaeologist and adventurer in the debut photo from Prime Video’s reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise (see it, below).
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
The series is based on the iconic Tomb Raider video game franchise, which follows the adventures of archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
When achieving the summit or the darkest depths becomes essential to self-worth, death can become a worthwhile risk for an extreme adventurer.
—Christopher Ferguson, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
The Game of Thrones and X-Men star is decked out as the globe-trotting archaeologist and adventurer in the debut photo from Prime Video’s reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise (see it, below).
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
The series is based on the iconic Tomb Raider video game franchise, which follows the adventures of archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
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Terroir doesn’t just belong to wine snobs, because apparently Ethiopia owns it.—
John Noakes,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Spanish and English explorers arrived in the 1500s.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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The winter weather will create dangerous avalanche conditions for backcountry explorers, and is expected to disrupt travel on mountain roads and highways, including Interstate 70, forecasters said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
17 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2021
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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.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2019
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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.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
7 Jan. 2026
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In classic Brooksian fashion, this simple succession plan becomes complicated by a potential scandal involving her social climber husband (Jack Lowden), the sudden return of her womanizing father (Woody Harrelson), and, well, Ella McCay’s own stubbornly idealistic personality.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
10 Dec. 2025
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Owned by Horoy Group, Conrad Shenzhen is poised to usher global travelers to the Chinese gateway city.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Because many travelers book trips months in advance, the biggest question now is whether the recent disruptions in western Mexico will stabilize before those peak weeks or whether airlines and cruise lines will continue adjusting schedules and itineraries as spring break demand ramps up.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?—
W.E. Gutman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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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
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Mick West, a science writer who has published books on how to debunk sensational claims, echoed the comet's discoverer.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2025
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Watson ran a lab at Harvard University and was a co-discoverer of messenger RNA, the molecule that carries DNA's instructions to cells' protein-making factories.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
7 Nov. 2025
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The concern was not one rogue teacher or isolated incident.—
Robert Casper,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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In the mid-Aughts, armed with the theorem, the rationalists discovered that humanity is in jeopardy of a rogue superintelligent AI wiping out all life on the planet.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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