Thesaurus results for NAVIGATED

navigated

verb

past tense of navigate

as in steered

to operate or control the course of the hours of training that are required before a student pilot is allowed to navigate an airplane solo

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as in sailed

to travel on water in a vessel the months that were once required to navigate around South America in the days before the Panama Canal

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as in traversed

to make one's way through, across, or over it will take some effort to navigate that stretch of hills, but we can do it

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Recent Examples of navigated How has the gallery navigated ups and downs and maintained the business side? — Lina Lecaro, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026 To reach it, BAS researchers set off from the Falkland Islands and navigated rough seas for two weeks. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 While Bell has navigated the situation with grace and issued an immediate public apology for his teenage posts, getting back into the Blazers' good graces remains a steep battle. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Barra has since navigated a global pandemic, tariffs and supply-chain chaos, and the rise of AI as an unstoppable and industry-shaking force. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Accessibility The resort does not have any ADA-compliant villas, and there are some steps throughout the property navigated typically by golf cart. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026 China has set a new world record for simultaneous autonomous underwater vehicles after 116 small drones navigated a swimming pool without human control. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026 Denim’s practicality and versatility were displayed at London Fashion Week, where attendees navigated the city in blue jeans. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 There’s an instinctual quality to how Navarrette has navigated her career thus far. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

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The plane’s first officer, an Omani man named Hamam al-Hammami, had assaulted the plane’s Indian captain with an emergency axe and steered the aircraft into a nosedive.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Backup Ty Dieffenbach steered UCLA to a win, but the Bruins need better quarterback depth.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of steered

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Henderson picked it up and sailed a throw to first, allowing the tying run to score.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
More than five centuries ago, the son of a wool weaver from Genoa sailed westward to widen the boundaries of the known world.

— Mackenzie Chase, The Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of sailed

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Concerns over driverless robotaxis, such as the Waymo vehicles that have traversed the Atlanta streets since last year, are also reasonable.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026
So while Waddington’s landscape looked like a static territory waiting to be traversed, the real landscape changes as cells develop.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of traversed

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It’ll be piloted in an unspecified part of northern California with local food services, including Chipotle and Popeyes.

— Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 30 Sep. 2026
In 2020, Glover piloted the first operational flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, Resilience, to the International Space Station.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of piloted

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Treasury said Caspian had transported IRGC personnel and weapons to Syria and said Meraj had ferried illicit cargo, including weapons, to the Syrian government.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But that requires arms with minor-league options who can be ferried between Triple-A Albuquerque and Denver.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of ferried

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The annual domestic box office crossed the $8 billion mark on Friday and is up over 19% from last year.

— Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
If the car or truck was rented in one state, set to return in another state and crossed into Mexico via a third, the coordination required between three state law enforcement agencies can make timely recovery of the vehicle even more complicated.

— Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of crossed

Verb

The canal sparkled gray-green in the sunlight and on the opposite bank, people walked their dogs and relaxed on benches along 365’s esplanade.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
The 400 extras who walked Moschino’s Milan runway (not in our rankings this season, but an important show nonetheless) did something similar.

— Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026

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