adventurer
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Nearing the end of the journey, he signed a deal with acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog, with the pair pictured together on Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, moments after the adventurer waded ashore in October.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
The British adventurer makes her acrobatic moves against a background of realistic graphics, complete with her trademark sarcastic quips.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The obituary described Flynn as “an adventurer with a penchant for fighting and romance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In 1979, she founded the Wulff School of Fly Fishing with her husband, Lee Wulff, an adventurer who died in a plane crash in 1991.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
What a truly extraordinary adventurer this man in black must be.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of adventurers each spring.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon were adventurers, and while perhaps not personally admirable, they changed history and changed it irrevocably:
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
The king solemnly advises the adventurers on how, according to lore, elephants became revered participants in the history of his people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
She doesn’t anymore—now she wears mascara, lip gloss, and sundresses—but back then, she liked to pretend that we were adventurers.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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