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explorer

[ik-splawr-er] / ɪkˈsplɔr ər /


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In the 1770s, Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition of settlers into what would later become California, bringing donkeys and horses with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lynas Rare Earths has agreed to buy Meteoric Resources in an all-share deal that values the Australia-listed explorer at around $672 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Paddy describes himself as an "artist, inventor, explorer and plumber based in Belfast".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

It would take 118 years for a spacecraft to travel far enough away to find it, based on estimates from the speed of Nasa’s New Horizons explorer.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026

Frank Hurley, the twenty-four-year-old photographer, had been to the Antarctic with an explorer named Douglas Mawson, and was a key member because of the financial backing he could attract.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Dr Konyak points to explorers, colonial officials, missionaries and photographers drawn to tattooed faces, ornaments, weapons and headhunting, while the lives behind them often receded from view.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

By the end of the 16th century, travel accounts by English explorers inspired efforts to colonize the Carolina coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Not a very imaginative lot, those Spanish explorers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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