as in daring
inclined or willing to take risks
let's be adventurous and take a bus into the city for New Year's Eve this year
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Recent Examples of adventurous
For the adventurous, the Wild Caving Tour offers belly crawls and tight squeezes, requiring hard hats and headlamps.
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Erin Gifford, USA Today, 18 June 2025
There is even a variety of 2-in-1 laptops to consider, with adventurous designs and integrated touchscreens.
—Luke Larsen, Wired News, 15 June 2025
What the younger Seed found, accompanied by memories from her mother’s colleagues, was a rich archive of adventurous work and personal expression: photos, journals, contact sheets, Super8 film, audio pieces and a trove of interviews.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
For one thing: Bruce Springsteen heard Church’s new album, Evangeline vs. the Machine, an adventurous project that introduces orchestral and choral sounds to Church’s rebellious brand of country music.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
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Erin Gifford, USA Today, 18 June 2025
There is even a variety of 2-in-1 laptops to consider, with adventurous designs and integrated touchscreens.
—Luke Larsen, Wired News, 15 June 2025
What the younger Seed found, accompanied by memories from her mother’s colleagues, was a rich archive of adventurous work and personal expression: photos, journals, contact sheets, Super8 film, audio pieces and a trove of interviews.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
For one thing: Bruce Springsteen heard Church’s new album, Evangeline vs. the Machine, an adventurous project that introduces orchestral and choral sounds to Church’s rebellious brand of country music.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurous
Adjective
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Scattered on the shelves are adventure books from my childhood, with the daring adventurer Biggles from the eponymous British series embarrassingly well represented.—
Jack Barlow,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2025
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After the stoppage of play, what had been a daring weeklong pas de deux between this U.S. Open’s entrants and this wonderful old beast of a course devolved into a sopping-wet street fight of survival.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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Questions about a bold agenda In public appearances, Kennedy has outlined what experts describe as an ambitious agenda to overhaul how the U.S. evaluates chemicals, particularly in the realm of food and some consumer products.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Epic turns it up a notch with a bolder slub design in the warp yarns and a natural marble character.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
18 June 2025
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Occasionally we are confronted with stories, like the founding of Knox College [established in 1837 by abolitionists committed to educating women and people of color] , where some person or some group of people chose the unpopular, but morally courageous path.—
Hanna Hart,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The event series is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis and told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate yet flawed women whose descendants would shape three of the world’s great faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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Fleet-footed, fearless and forward-thinking, 20-year-old Yildiz is a box of tricks.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Great leaders are not fearless beings who stoically snub their noses at terror.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Bloom’s bravest moment of June 16, 1904, comes a few pages later: —Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Sure enough, the seemingly eternally brave Achilles was killed by an arrow to his heel during the Trojan War.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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The newly-hyperactive Apple and Amazon, which control relatively few franchises, are more adventuresome with originals than the older studios.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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However, college kids and teens are adventuresome travel companions who enjoy a mix of outdoor adventure, cultural immersion, fine dining, and cool shopping.—
Jackie Burrell,
Parents,
29 July 2024
Adjective
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While some enterprising users are already 3D printing solutions to this problem, Nintendo or some smart accessory maker should make a more official mouse holster to support this unique control scheme.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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Their hope is pinned on the idea that an enterprising AI developer will miraculously see beyond the bounds of existing AI and derive a groundbreaking new approach that no one has yet even imagined.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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Written and directed by documentarian Brian Tetsuro Ivie (Emanuel) in his narrative directorial debut, the film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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Unfortunately, impulsive, inventory-optimization metric chasing often soothes symptoms while elevating strategic risk.—
Noah Barsky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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