pathfinder
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After completing those activities, Orion will separate and wait for SpaceX's Starship pathfinder.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
"We set high standards, it can be a pathfinder, it can be a test-bed that we do together before it is expanded to the broader region," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2023
This mission, called CAPSTONE, is meant to serve as a pathfinder.
From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2022
Mr. Cerruti was a pathfinder in other ways.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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During the coldest months, icebreakers keep Finland's ports open, and work as pathfinders for big cargo ships.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
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
I take a certain historic delight in having followed the routes of the early pathfinders to a more remote destination.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook