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adventurer

[ad-ven-cher-er] / ædˈvɛn tʃər ər /


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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

A British adventurer has been refused permission to use the Channel Tunnel to complete his 36,000-mile walk around the world.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

The result is an often exhilarating, often disturbing and always poignant tale of an artist and adventurer who lived to challenge the limits of what humans could do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

I once asked James Cameron, the director and adventurer, why we should travel to Mars and such places.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

But in 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, an intrepid group of pinniped adventurers swam beneath the bridge and headed east to Pier 39’s K-Dock, where they decided to make a home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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 game, which tells the story of a group of adventurers on a quest to destroy The Paintress, was praised for its emotional narrative and use of old-school turn-based battles.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

The roots are uncomfortably large, as if each tree is competing with one another to see who can trip the most blockheaded adventurers.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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