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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 In flight tests, the tiny drone navigated pitch-black enclosures, mapped unknown room layouts, hugged surface contours, and located exits without a single visual cue. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026 Under Arnold’s leadership the FSF has navigated a period of significant change across both the organization and the fashion industry. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 How that journey is navigated is the key to the production being successful in rising above convention. — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 How that relationship gets navigated often determines whether the new leader inherits a team or a quiet resistance. — Joy Nissen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Using a thermal imaging camera, Johnson navigated around the heavy smoke. — Rina Nakano, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 The Braves have navigated a difficult stretch featuring the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays and Phillies. — Jesús Cano, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Lukas navigated the group of out-of-town commanders to the closest door. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, her mother, having navigated four older siblings’ athletic careers, was free to travel with 14-year-old Tracy because the nest was empty. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 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 Chargers were scuffling on Sunday even before WR Ladd McConkey was sidelined with a chest injury (after a Justin Herbert pass steered him into a huge collision).
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Every Sunday, a group known as the Ciegocleta meets in Ecuador's capital city of Quito to ride tandem bikes that are steered by volunteers who can see, but pedaled by blind riders.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of steered
Verb
  • The family sailed on the Lusitania in 1914, a year before a German torpedo sank the ship and killed nearly twelve hundred people.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Wearing a headband and a hard look, Chen took a breath and sailed over a man and two motorcycles.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of sailed
Verb
  • The starry event has traversed the globe from New York City to London to Paris to LA and with each location the celebration of fashion, celebrity, and performance has reached new heights.
    — Glamour, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2026
  • To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • Nineteen hijackers carried out the attacks, led by Mohamed Atta, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • For instance, the retailer last year piloted an ambassador program among store associates, recruiting 10 employees who were responsible for posting multiple pieces of monthly content.
    — Jennie Bell, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of piloted
Verb
  • The defunct Amtrak line, which ran more than 2,600 miles between Seattle and Chicago, ferried passengers to stops in Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake City, winding along tracks that still carve through Idaho’s Snake River Plain today.
    — Rose Evans September 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Pilot once ferried maritime pilots to larger ships in Boston Harbor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of ferried
Verb
  • The move is the first in a string of major central bank decisions this week, with the Bank of England up next, and followed by the Bank of Japan on Friday.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That study, being conducted by DRC and Doctors Without Borders, will give participants a shot of Ervebo, followed a month later by a shot of an experimental vaccine designed to protect against the Sudan version of the Ebola virus.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of followed
Verb
  • As the freshman crossed into the end zone, the stadium went dead silent in shock.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The team calculated a combined measure of heat and humidity that sets a lethal limit for modern endotherms and found that threshold was never crossed anywhere in their Cretaceous simulations.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of crossed
Verb
  • At one point, Ramírez, decked out in his jockey outfit, walked Rolison around the grounds by the ear of his horse costume.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The Londoner walked away looking only slightly less confused.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of walked

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“Navigated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigated. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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