adventure
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Karl ducks into a shop and comes out with a bottle of water, flinging it under a bungee cord attached to his trolley, which he had made in Nicaragua early in the adventure.
From BBC β Sep. 19, 2026
“Maybe the answer was enmeshed in the question,” she tells readers in “The Butterfly Season,” a roving account of her adventure, first published in Denmark last year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
You’re aware that the horizon is just the start of the adventure.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
If you’re looking for action and adventure, Sam calls The End of Oak Street a “nasty little throwback to Jurassic Park.”
From Slate β Sep. 4, 2026
I jump out and run past her, bound through the kitchen, and catapult over a basket of potatoes with the leap of an adventure hero.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Though adolescents might not be easy to thrill, they long for great IRL adventures like the rest of us.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 14, 2026
The lazy hazy days of summer may feel like a distant memory as September shifts our energy back to business and forward to new adventures.
From BBC β Sep. 13, 2026
If you’re consistent with your goals, the more Dora the Explorer–style adventures your bird can go on.
From Slate β Sep. 6, 2026
In its IPO prospectus about a decade later, the company pitched itself as a way for sports enthusiasts to share their adventures and passions.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 2, 2026
They’d stock up on food for the winter, see the doctor and the dentist, and go on adventures with Uncle Solly.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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
I’m not sure Dave will be around in a year or two when I’m all adventured out.
From Slate β Feb. 24, 2020
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
Stay: The historic Hotel Andaluz is a five-minute walk from the Albuquerque station, making it a perfect home base for adventuring.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 24, 2024
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
The original Dragon’s Dogma, from 2012, married robust combat with slow, methodical adventuring and baroque, anime-esque pomp.
From New York Times β Mar. 21, 2024
It felt good to be free and adventuring alone.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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