as in sailors
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 navigators
The shelter will be open only to Elk Grove residents or those with deep ties to the city, verified through a vetting process, and who receive referrals from the city’s homeless services navigators or police officers.
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Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Updating essential health benefits to fully integrate behavioral health, increasing reimbursement for primary care and funding community health workers and care navigators would pay dividends in outcomes and equity.
—Jesse Jackson Jr, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026
But health care navigators say skipping coverage can be far riskier than the potential for their address to land in the hands of immigration enforcement officers.
—Paul Kiefer, jsonline.com, 4 Feb. 2026
In some districts, navigators focus on violence prevention or absenteeism.
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
In the meantime, McGee-Tyner said her organization’s health navigators are helping customers weigh their options if they’re priced out of the Covered California marketplace.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
As Powell — one of Capitol Hill’s most adroit navigators — made his rounds, Republicans on both sides of the Capitol panned the investigation.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 13 Jan. 2026
The program includes support from an interdisciplinary team that includes doctors with dementia experience and care navigators.
—Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
As time-telling became more precise, ship navigators needed a standardized way to set their chronometers.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Updating essential health benefits to fully integrate behavioral health, increasing reimbursement for primary care and funding community health workers and care navigators would pay dividends in outcomes and equity.
—Jesse Jackson Jr, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026
But health care navigators say skipping coverage can be far riskier than the potential for their address to land in the hands of immigration enforcement officers.
—Paul Kiefer, jsonline.com, 4 Feb. 2026
In some districts, navigators focus on violence prevention or absenteeism.
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
In the meantime, McGee-Tyner said her organization’s health navigators are helping customers weigh their options if they’re priced out of the Covered California marketplace.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
As Powell — one of Capitol Hill’s most adroit navigators — made his rounds, Republicans on both sides of the Capitol panned the investigation.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 13 Jan. 2026
The program includes support from an interdisciplinary team that includes doctors with dementia experience and care navigators.
—Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
As time-telling became more precise, ship navigators needed a standardized way to set their chronometers.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigators
Noun
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Like people are trying their best to follow the letter of the law or the exact wording of these orders without completely outing their trans sailors.—
Lauren Hodges,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2026
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Though his injuries were severe, the sailors watched in wonder as the cat determinedly licked his wounds, then got back to work destroying the rats threatening the ship’s food stores.—
Anne Ewbank,
Popular Science,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This will be a dangerous storm for mariners — with the potential for at least 25-foot seas offshore.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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The Coast Guard has put out a signal to other mariners for the survivors in distress.—
Chris Boccia,
ABC News,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Navigators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigators. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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