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
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
"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
Diggins arrived the Beijing Games as a leader of the U.S. team, a pathfinder who had showed other American cross-country skiers that they could compete with the Scandinavians who have long dominated the sport.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Peter went on ahead, our pathfinder as usual, while I led Marlene, with Karli riding up on her, all of us knowing we owed our lives to that extraordinary and wonderful lady.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
The first pair, who would be the pathfinders and blaze the trail for those coming after, would leave at ten o'clock, the next pair twenty minutes later, then the next, and so on.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
