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
"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
This mission, called CAPSTONE, is meant to serve as a pathfinder.
From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2022
In 2017, a government-commissioned review by former energy minister Charles Hendry backed plans for a pathfinder lagoon in Swansea Bay, saying it should be viewed as a "no-regrets policy".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
And the pathfinders, if they find they're in any danger of making a wrong turn, must make a sign for us who follow.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains or Bessie King's Strange Adventure by Jane L. Stewart