discoverer

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Noun
  • The Mughal Empire’s hunger for land taxes, for instance, drove an assault on eastern India’s forests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which redistributed land to pioneer cultivators willing to undertake that work of settlement.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Additional investors include Fred Moll, the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical and pioneer of robotic surgery, who has joined the company’s strategic advisory board.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Our relationship brings to mind explorer Phyllis Munday who, along with her husband Don, climbed many peaks in the southern Coast Mountains and elsewhere across British Columbia between the 1910s and the 1940s.
    Sarah Boon June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • Cooper Creek, named somewhat erroneously by early British explorer Charles Sturt, is hardly a creek.
    Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The nightmare comes as travelers gear up for the holiday weekend.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • If the pattern holds, travelers could soon be marking their calendars for the tiger shark aggregation on Okaloosa Island.
    Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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“Discoverer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discoverer. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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