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
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.
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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
Patient navigators help people understand and manage our complex health systems.
—Robin Shah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
And street medicine — health and social services for the unhoused — is a multidisciplinary effort that includes nurses, doctors, community health workers and navigators.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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
Patient navigators help people understand and manage our complex health systems.
—Robin Shah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
And street medicine — health and social services for the unhoused — is a multidisciplinary effort that includes nurses, doctors, community health workers and navigators.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigators
Noun
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His aim was not to antagonize Africans, but to aid sailors.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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The force includes about 4,500 sailors and Marines, among them a rapid-response expeditionary unit of 2,200 troops.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Meteorologists are already warning beachgoers and mariners to pay attention to conditions and forecasts as Erin approaches the offshore waters.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Navigators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigators. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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