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explorer

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as in pioneer
someone who is the first to do something or be somewhere The deep-sea explorer set out to discover shipwrecks long lost to history.

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“Explorer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explorer. Accessed 5 Dec. 2022.

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