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pathfinder

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as in explorer

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Recent Examples of pathfinder The landing problem While Artemis II is designed to serve as a pathfinder mission for a moon landing, whether NASA can pull off an actual lunar touchdown this decade has remained in question. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 One tool developed by The Modern Elder Academy is a pathfinder quiz that identifies eight types of midlife paths. — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026 That mission will be followed by Artemis III, which will utilize Artemis II as a pathfinder. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 9 Feb. 2026 Roman also carries a coronagraph, a pathfinder instrument that can block out a star’s blinding light to directly photograph planets orbiting around it. — Grant Tremblay, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pathfinder

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The name began appearing on European explorers' maps in the 1660s.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
On the video, Smith traced the Texas longhorn’s heritage to cattle early Spanish explorers brought to the Americas in the late 15th century.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026

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In reality, decades of land abuse and exploitation left behind a scarred terrain uniquely prepared for the arrival of kudzu as a fast-growing pioneer plant.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
The early quantum pioneers didn’t realize — at first — that the arcane math that strikingly captured the conduct of atoms had left the real world behind.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

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