adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer Every adventurer needs a team But Rome wasn’t built in a day, or, The Secret of Weepstone wasn’t built by one man in a garage with a Radio Shack TRS80 Model III. Curtis Silver, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025 The passengers included Stockton Rush, 61, cofounder of OceanGate; Hamish Harding, 58, an adventurer and owner of Action Aviation; Paul Henri Nargeoloet, 77, a veteran Titanic explorer from France; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48; and his son Suleman, 19. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025 That’s the idea proposed by BecomingX, a learning and development company co-founded by adventurer Bear Grylls. Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
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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
  • Because, my goodness, they’re set out on so much land — each the personal playgrounds of ambitious chefs and nouveau-riche social climbers, reveling in the Custom of the Country.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In the first season of HBO Max’s Emmy-winning The Gilded Age, the women of the Van Rhijn family discuss the invitation of social climber Bertha Russell to an upcoming party in Newport, Rhode Island.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Under the president’s new blueprints for NASA, the agency looks set to depend on Elon Musk’s outfit to loft future Moon explorers aboard the SpaceX Starship from the Kennedy Space Center as SLS flights are aborted.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Titanic’s final resting place was far from Ballard’s only discovery in a long, distinguished career as a scientist and explorer.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 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
  • Porter thinks airport lounges can be part of what’s offered to travelers, and won’t go away.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Benefits for Charlotte with Middle Eastern nonstop The new route is expected to create opportunities for people in Charlotte, from leisure travelers to business professionals.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 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
  • William Arruda is a keynote speaker, author, and personal branding pioneer.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Tech pioneers like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos suggest space may be the next place to look.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Controls prevent agents from going rogue.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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