explorer
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Department of Agriculture plant explorer Frank Meyer collected dozens of soybean varieties in China, many of which government researchers Charles Piper and William Morse planted at the department’s Arlington Experimental Farm in Virginia.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Paddy describes himself as an "artist, inventor, explorer and plumber based in Belfast".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It would take 118 years for a spacecraft to travel far enough away to find it, based on estimates from the speed of Nasa’s New Horizons explorer.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Virgil plucked them habitually, like an explorer searching for gems.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Not a very imaginative lot, those Spanish explorers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Last month, explorers discovered the ruins of the Douglas DC-4 aircraft using an autonomous sonar drone that detected the aircraft's fuselage and tail.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Specimens gathered by explorers generations ago continue to provide valuable scientific insights today, especially in remote regions where fieldwork remains difficult.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
European explorers had renamed it Mount St. Helens, in honor of Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St. Helens, a British ambassador to Spain.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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