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
Nurse navigators also identify potential barriers to care, such as language differences, financial limitations, or lack of access to resources.
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Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
Thus, it is easily seen and identified and is of great interest and value to navigators.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
And learn to map the tides, the winds, the sea swells, as the navigators do?
—Literary Hub, 21 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
Akoa Makani, Howard and McBride take on the toughest perimeter assignments for the league’s three best defenses and are excellent screen navigators.
—Ben Pickman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 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
Patient navigators help people understand and manage our complex health systems.
—Robin Shah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
Thus, it is easily seen and identified and is of great interest and value to navigators.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
And learn to map the tides, the winds, the sea swells, as the navigators do?
—Literary Hub, 21 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
Akoa Makani, Howard and McBride take on the toughest perimeter assignments for the league’s three best defenses and are excellent screen navigators.
—Ben Pickman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 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
Patient navigators help people understand and manage our complex health systems.
—Robin Shah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navigators
Noun
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The original bell was replaced on the underwater ship with a replica, engraved with the 29 sailors' names on it.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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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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The alert calls for heightened caution from mariners, especially in shallow waters.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Navigators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navigators. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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