discoverer

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Recent Examples of discoverer Alfred Russel Wallace, a co-discoverer of natural selection alongside Charles Darwin, famously struggled with placing language into the long arc of evolution; his successors have not done much better. Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025 And University of Wollongong paleoanthropologist Richard Roberts, a co-discoverer of Homo floresiensis, thinks there are probably more isolated island hominin species. ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discoverer
Noun
  • Alexander Jabbour is an Engineering Lead at Rilla, an industry pioneer in real-time sales conversation feedback.
    Alexander Jabbour, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Visitors can also stop by the Leonard Reid House, built in 1926 by one of Sarasota’s early Black pioneers, Leonard Reid, or visit the Greater Newtown Historical Gallery, a repository of Newtown history that includes family photo collections and artifacts.
    Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 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
  • 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

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