adventurer

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Recent Examples of adventurer Serious adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts can save $150 off the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 9 July 2025 Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey are adventurers on a mission to obtain dinosaur DNA for a breakthrough drug that could cure heart disease. Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 3 July 2025 Here, the remains of a maritime forest beckon to photographers, artists, adventurers, and anyone interested in the history of Jekyll Island. Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 27 June 2025 From the extremely drab future of 2176, three adventurers are sent back in time to July 4, 1776 but mistakenly land in the year 1976. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for adventurer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventurer
Noun
  • Lisette Olivera assumes the mantle as Jess Valenzuela, a history buff and puzzle snob working odd jobs in New Orleans and mourning the recent death of her mother.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
  • On their first day in town, treat your food snob to a fireworks show of Dallas at its most sophisticated.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • There actually is something at stake for these women, which frees them up for a desperate kind of humor, in the vein of those plucky social climbers in a screwball comedy from an earlier era.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • From the dynastic Dupree family to the conniving social climbers bent on usurping their place at the top of the social hierarchy, the historic new daytime drama is all about its characters.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As early as 1585, English explorers were aware of the area, and the state’s first settlement, Bath, is only 15 miles away.
    Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
  • While cave explorers and the Mammoth Cave region at large would always remember his name, the world moved on from, arguably, the first viral news story of the 20th century.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • For light sleepers or travelers seeking a more tranquil setting, this property may not be the best fit.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • The same applies to travelers with mobility concerns.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The neo-soul pioneer treated fans to a journey through her extensive catalog of hits, each song delivered with her signature blend of spiritual intensity and playful irreverence.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 6 July 2025
  • Visitors can congregate under the sculptures honoring jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Buddy Bolden, Mahalia Jackson and others.
    Martie Bowser, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • What is interesting about the rogue visit is that the team is owned by fiercely anti-Trump John Henry, who also owns the fiercely anti-Trump Boston Globe, which is run by his fiercely anti-Trump wife, Linda Pizzuti.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 July 2025
  • While Superman clearly has a wide rogues gallery filled with powerful villains, many consider Lex Luthor to be his ultimate arch-nemesis.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 11 July 2025

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