adventure
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He has advice for others pondering an adventure.
From BBC β Oct. 31, 2026
With a twinkle in his eye, he adds: "I have still got that sense of adventure."
From BBC β Oct. 31, 2026
“I was in awe of his intellect, dazzled by his wit, amazed by his fearlessness and spirit of adventure, besotted by his loving heart, and smitten by his beautiful blue eyes.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 2026
Hart’s “Meeting Ourselves” is woozy and vaguely threatening, with lines like “Don’t be scared / Open the door” bringing to mind a shadowy Lewis Carroll adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 27, 2026
“Although . . . I suppose, knowing your love of seaborne adventure, I ought not expect you to stay on dry land for long.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
By 2023, Mahlum was ready to begin new adventures and sold the fitness company for a staggering $88.4 million.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 30, 2026
The author of the memoir “Free Range Girl” on writers who revisit the struggles, adventures and heartaches of youth.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 15, 2026
Since 1989 Gromit, the animated dog from Bristol's Aardman Animations, has shared adventures with his cheese-loving owner Wallace, from spaceflight to being pursued by robotic garden gnomes.
From BBC β Oct. 13, 2026
Apart from the turtle story, which made it into the episode “Field Trip,” very few of Arnold’s adventures were directly borrowed from Bartlett’s life.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 7, 2026
It had been dried, with her coat, in front of a salamandric flame, but it still smelled of its many and various adventures.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Bruce: We were as basic as we could be, talking about something we’ve never fully adventured into, and rightly so.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 27, 2024
“That’s precisely why I had Emet-Selch take on the role of chiding like, ‘What’s with that lonely look, as though you know and have adventured through everything there is to see in the world?
From The Verge β Apr. 29, 2022
On the one hand, he tells us, the annals are haunted by “those who almost adventured, who almost achieved, but ultimately, for them, it proved to be too much.”
From New York Times β Feb. 2, 2022
As I look back at my vanlife adventure, it blows my mind that I’ve adventured more during the first year of my 30s than almost all 29 years before.
From Seattle Times β Dec. 8, 2019
But halfway down the steps, she realized just how long it had been since she’d adventured by herself.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
A self-described B-student, he spent his childhood adventuring in the wilderness near his hometown of Seattle, and as a kid had preferred skiing to YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 3, 2026
In “Delicious in Dungeon,” a ragtag adventuring crew makes hot pot out of man-eating mushrooms.
From Salon β May 12, 2025
One date turned into three years of adventuring, monthly travels, new restaurants, cities, family weddings and concerts.
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 3, 2025
Jones, an adventuring archaeologist, is seen with the hat early on in the movie where he and his companions jump from a crashing plane in an inflatable raft.
From BBC β Aug. 17, 2024
“And then tomorrow we’ll go over my adventuring lessons again.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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