Thesaurus results for PATHFINDER

pathfinder

noun

as in explorer

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Recent Examples of pathfinder Three years of brownies, three years girl guides, three years pathfinders. —

Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026 One tool developed by The Modern Elder Academy is a pathfinder quiz that identifies eight types of midlife paths. —

Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026 Roman also carries a coronagraph, a pathfinder instrument that can block out a star’s blinding light to directly photograph planets orbiting around it. —

Grant Tremblay, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026 Astronomers have found what could become the first target for a crucial test of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a soon-to-launch observatory that serves as a pathfinder mission for discovering Earth-like worlds around other stars. —

Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pathfinder

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The Italian explorer's journey also set the stage for colonization and enslavement, and academics and activists in recent years have called for an end to honoring him, noting the brutal treatment of Indigenous people that followed his arrival on the continent.

— Dan Diamond, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
These men were, respectively, a reformist prime minister, the founder of the police force, a naval explorer and a privateer.

— Simon Constable, FOXNews.com, 22 Mar. 2026