explorer

Example Sentences

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A solo explorer can only fight his circumstances, not his co-pilot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

The ambitious gothic Netflix film featured an Arctic explorer ship frozen on the ice, and Frankenstein's horror lab on top of a Victorian water tower.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

The team behind NASA's six-wheeled Mars explorer tested a vision-enabled artificial intelligence system to map a safe route across the Martian surface without relying on human route planners.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

The first explorer to complete the Northwest Passage solely by ship was Norwegian seafarer Roald Amundsen, from 1903 to 1906, more than 400 years after the first recorded attempt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

“Did you ever hear of an explorer called Stanislaus Grumman?”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman