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adventurer

[ad-ven-cher-er] / ædˈvɛn tʃər ər /


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The scheme was thought up by adventurer and financier William Paterson.

From The Wall Street Journal

Popular images, such as the fearless adventurer, powerful fighter and skilled seafarer, have become familiar.

From Science Daily

These stories submerged their young readers in thrilling quests filled with heroic knights and adventurers.

From The Wall Street Journal

He draws on the photographer’s diaries and autobiography to portray his subject as a gentle-souled adventurer, driven into a peripatetic life by wanderlust and financial necessity.

From The Wall Street Journal

At its head was Frederick Funston, an adventurer who had fought with the Cuban rebels before America joined the war.

From The Wall Street Journal