adventure
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"Even if you bought two from the same series, the same weight and structure, the two cymbals wouldn't perfectly match. Because it's handmade, it's basically an adventure," the 42-year-old told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
This was the end of the adventure in France, but the beginning of a glorious era for Welsh football.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It was a wondrous adventure into our country’s founding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
As she’s recently learned, it’s an adventure that sails smack into islands of musky internet trolls and clashes with cinematic and literary titans like Christopher Nolan and Joyce Carol Oates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Sancho, my brother, adventure is before us!" he said.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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He was a sweet retiree who’d tell me about his weekly fishing adventures and close my garage whenever I was in a hurry and would forget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The game is the organizing factor in the narrator’s globe-trotting adventures, whose objectives, never obvious to begin with, always seem to be changing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Adeyemi’s novels, inspired by West African mythology, follow the adventures of Zélie, played by Thuso Mbedu, on her quest to restore magic to the kingdom of Orïsha.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Shields’ Instagram features dozens of photos of her adventures skateboarding, surfing, camping and hiking across California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
As a rule, brave explorers do not have worried governesses mouthing objections to their adventures in Parts Unknown.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Bruce: We were as basic as we could be, talking about something we’ve never fully adventured into, and rightly so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
On the one hand, he tells us, the annals are haunted by “those who almost adventured, who almost achieved, but ultimately, for them, it proved to be too much.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
As I look back at my vanlife adventure, it blows my mind that I’ve adventured more during the first year of my 30s than almost all 29 years before.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2019
As Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, Carol has led the Avengers, adventured with the X-Men and saved the world over and over again.
From The Verge ● Sep. 19, 2018
George Marston, the official artist of the expedition, had adventured in the Antarctic with Shackleton, too.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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A self-described B-student, he spent his childhood adventuring in the wilderness near his hometown of Seattle, and as a kid had preferred skiing to YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
If biking with a cat or small dog is on someone’s bucket list, the brand’s pet carrier clicks right into the rear cargo rack for easy adventuring.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
Tania Davidson is a psychologist who spends her free time backpacking, sailing and otherwise adventuring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Mr Deen added that Jeremiah liked football, exploring and adventuring, and that the family would not dwell on the sadness, but would "focus on how happy he made us in his life".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
Everyone must go adventuring sooner or later, yet finding one’s way home is not easy.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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