navigated

verb

past tense of navigate
1
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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2
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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3
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 Anyone who has successfully navigated through an AI initiative can attest to this. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 This male and female duo navigated the film’s tonal shifts between horror and comedy with ease. — William Earl, Variety, 25 July 2026 Without training in how to respond to it, a threat can feel not just frightening but formless, something to be endured rather than navigated. — Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026 With that hurdle successfully navigated, Cameron was back in the driver's seat and ready to head off to LV-426. — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 19 July 2026 But as the pair navigated through the corner, Hamilton experienced understeer. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 July 2026 In this Wild West of college athletics, when every player is an unrestricted free agent every year, some schools have navigated the transfer terrain better than others. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026 The book details how Schnipper navigated grief following the death of his nearly two-year-old son Renzo in 2021. — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 17 July 2026 If the Tesla had successfully navigated the course that Butler set before allegedly losing consciousness, the car would have turned left before smashing into the family home where 76-year-old Martha Avila lost her life. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigated
  1. steered
  2. sailed
  3. traversed
  4. piloted
  5. ferried
  6. followed
  7. crossed
  8. walked
Verb
  • The mental health courts partner with the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, or ODR, which has steered more than 15,000 defendants with mental, physical and behavioral needs into housing and treatment since it was established by the county in 2015.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • Much of the remaining Sino-Soviet similarity changed again in the late 1970s as Deng Xiaoping steered China toward market economics, initiating almost fifty years of economic growth.
    — Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
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  • The ship is regularly sailed and rowed, and on select outings visitors can even take an oar themselves—making Tønsberg one of the few places where World Cup fans can find out just how much harder the real thing is than the stadium version.
    — Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 July 2026
Definition of sailed
Verb
  • Around 100 commercial vessels traversed the strait on a typical day before the war.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
  • Bear tracks showed where a pair of grizzlies had traversed our island and swum to the far shore.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • The company already piloted similar supplier data workflows through a collaboration with Microsoft, one of its backers alongside the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane and S&P Global.
    — Arthur Zackiewicz, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
  • Near the end of the demo, one of us piloted a ship while the other used a turret to shoot enemies and space debris.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026
Definition of piloted
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  • Jet skis ferried survivors back to shore while people on the beach provided first aid.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • Embracing a local landmark, the park course had a ramp styled after Sacramento’s Tower Bridge, the State Fair site’s iconic sky ride ferried guests and skateboarder Nyjah Huston of nearby Davis made a podium at age 31.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of ferried
Verb
  • An extended team period followed that of individual, something that players actually seemed to like.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • This was followed by brands such as Rahul Mishra, Falguni Shane Peacock, JJ Valaya, Rimzim Dadu and Kunal Rawal at Taj Palace in New Delhi.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Definition of followed
Verb
  • The cancer arose in one clam, crossed into the other, and now flourishes in its new host, while the pullet carpet shell in those same waters shows no trace of the disease.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, crossed $100 a barrel Thursday for the first time since May.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Definition of crossed
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  • The king was said to have walked the perimeter at dusk and, like Ser Criston Cole, did not wear his mail hauberk.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Lindsay Pruitt gives him a hug while checking out this week’s edition of Sip City’s Wine & Chill Wednesday, having walked the 500 steps from her front door.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
Definition of walked

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