as in sailor
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
our crew comprised a captain, a navigator, and a few deckhands
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Recent Examples of navigator
Meanwhile, Halley remains a valuable navigator of the overall sales market and how to devise enticing offers to potential advertisers.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Some companies provide access to a caregiving navigator who can guide you through the health care maze.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
They are also considered expert navigators and have returned to some of the same grasslands for thousands of years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
The Nikumaroro theory suggests that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed on the island’s reef before their plane was swept away.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Some companies provide access to a caregiving navigator who can guide you through the health care maze.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
They are also considered expert navigators and have returned to some of the same grasslands for thousands of years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
The Nikumaroro theory suggests that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed on the island’s reef before their plane was swept away.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for navigator
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigator
Noun
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Small crafts include owners of small to medium sized motor and sail boats, affecting fisherman, para-sailors, windsurfers and canoe paddlers.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Paramount is definitely clearing its deck, along with plenty of sailors jumping — and being pushed — over the side.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By aiding mariners, Airy believed, such measurements provided a tangible service to the state that the newfangled spectroscopy might not be able to match.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Each mariner will be remembered with a bell rung.—
Emma George-Griffin,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Navigator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigator. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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