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pathfinder

[path-fahyn-der, pahth-] / ˈpæθˌfaɪn dər, ˈpɑθ- /










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The first launch will send Blue Origin's lander pathfinder into orbit, where it can remain for several weeks while waiting for the crew.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

"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

“I do see this as a pathfinder for how we can help facilitate commercial missions beyond Earth,” Mr. Baker said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

All were pathfinders in the industry, bridging the eras of black-and-white and color movies.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2014

Only this time we were not the pathfinders of the new era.

From Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff




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