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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.
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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.
—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
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Beloved by coffee snobs and design aficionados alike, the Alessi stovetop coffee maker blends high-quality brewing with a form that is beautiful enough to leave out all day long.
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The move shocked snobs everywhere, who could not believe that the future Queen of England had chosen a ring from a common catalogue.
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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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Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
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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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Keith played conservative social climber Margo Leadbetter, who is baffled by her neighbor Tom's sustainability-centric lifestyle with wife Barbara Good (Felicity Kendal).
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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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Average transaction values for travel are still high, more than $31,000, but travelers are scrutinizing their receipts and pushing back when rate hikes don't come with better service.
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Each issue is filled with breaking news, deep insights and exclusive strategies for becoming a better traveler.
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Even though the Feeneys have gotten more competitive under the junior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original team still prevails.
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
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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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This stops deepfakes and imposters.
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Savannah continues to ask the public for help locating her missing mother, while an imposter who sent fraudulent ransom demands has been arrested.
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“Adventurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventurer. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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