adventurous
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An adventurous tortoise is home safe and well after being rescued from a recycling and garden waste centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mike is the founder of nonprofit organization Elder Abuse Airforce, which is based out of John Wayne Airport and uses adventurous airplane journeys to raise awareness of financial scams targeting seniors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A brilliant cameo from Aniston promoting her new cookbook, with such adventurous epicurean dishes as “boiled hot dogs and peas,” serves as the film’s inciting event.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Among legacy networks, NBC was already the best match for Netflix—less stuffy than CBS News, less adventurous and jazzy than ABC News, at least by the images the three news divisions cultivated in their heyday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Handel was the more adventurous pan-European traveller, learning his craft in Italy and then, in his twenties, settling for good in England, where he was to create the great body of his masterpieces.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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