adventurer
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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
And he was very much an adventurer, right?
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
Popular images, such as the fearless adventurer, powerful fighter and skilled seafarer, have become familiar.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2025
Alkinoos, calm in power, heard him out, then took the great adventurer by the hand and led him from the fire.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
The game, which tells the story of a group of adventurers on a quest to destroy her, was praised for its emotional narrative and use of old-school, turn-based battles.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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
Gold and silver mines were the dream of all adventurers: a mine could plunge you into abject poverty, kill you with tuberculosis, or make you a rich man overnight.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
