adventurer

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

The obituary described Flynn as “an adventurer with a penchant for fighting and romance.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Winthrop made little headway, but Phips—an adventurer whom Mr. Marquis describes as “one of the more colorful and rascally figures of the era”—reached his objective, the city of Quebec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

And he was very much an adventurer, right?

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026

I journeyed with John Carter, gentleman adventurer from Virginia, to “Bar- soom,” as Mars was known to its inhabitants.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

When Cortes and his bedraggled adventurers landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, they might have been driven into the sea by thousands of Aztec cavalry mounted on domesticated native American horses.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond