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Recent Examples of navigator John was a navigator on a B-17, flying 6 missions before being killed on April 18, 1944, when German fighters attacked his squadron. Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025 Designed to help European navigators at sea, the map distorted landmasses by enlarging regions near the poles such as North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025 Bob had to be valiant, dictatorial, curious, ever listening, wily, playful, deluded, strategic, flirtatious, fallible, political, and willing to protect and persevere against all doubters, critics, compass navigators, naysayers well intentioned or not. Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Aug. 2025 He's joined by his crew, stoic swordsman Roronoa Zoro (Mackenyu), money-hungry navigator Nami (Emily Rudd), story-weaving sniper Usopp (Jacob Romero Gibson), and flirtatious chef Sanji (Taz Skylar). Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for navigator
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigator
Noun
  • Conan Gray’s ‘denim behemoth’ Thick, heavy and water-absorbent — denim is, frankly, a sailor’s nightmare.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Where at one time soldiers and sailors made do with fluttering flags or flashes of light to send simple messages, the modern warfighter is part of a global digital network where data rushes about like water out of a firehose and satellites act as a vital link in that network.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Licht, who has spent years on Richardson Bay, says a community of mariners who lived for decades on boats have mostly moved ashore.
    Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The entire shoreline is under high swim risk warnings, and advisories for boaters and mariners.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Navigator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigator. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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