pathfinder
Example Sentences
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"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
ESA has long planned its own gravitational-wave observatory, LISA, and has already flown a successful pathfinder.
From Scientific American • Feb. 24, 2022
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
I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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