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pathfinder

[path-fahyn-der, pahth‑] / ˈpæθˌfaɪn dər, ˈpɑθ‑ /










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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

Sarah Murphy, Welsh minister for mental health and wellbeing, said women's health pathfinder hubs are expected to come online "in the next few months" building on existing services to "create a tertiary level support".

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

"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

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

But in science, private donors often act as pathfinders for government investment in difficult research.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2022

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

Couture and Bellefeuille.—Among these pathfinders was Jean Couture, who had been left by Tonty at the Arkansas post.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton




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