pathfinder
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The first launch will send Blue Origin's lander pathfinder into orbit, where it can remain for several weeks while waiting for the crew.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Officials hope to pass the legislation to make police mergers more straightforward in this parliament and to get through at least one "pathfinder" merger before the next election.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
"The fact that it can is a major breakthrough because this is now a pathfinder project for similar projects in Europe."
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2022
Right now, the company is working toward a pathfinder mission that would send a test robot to the Earth-Moon Lagrange point as early as spring of 2024.
From The Verge ● Feb. 3, 2022
I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This was a night for powerful women and pathfinders like Burnett and Close.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2019
Bit by bit, McClellan, Tarter and other historians and lawmakers are highlighting the names and deeds of those early African American pathfinders.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018
Many refugees are using apps as pathfinders, devices to show them the best—or least dangerous— way west.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2015
All were pathfinders in the industry, bridging the eras of black-and-white and color movies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2014
The early pathfinders maintained there must be all manner of high-priced furs off there beyond the sky-line.
From When the West Was Young by Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt