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She bumps up against Owen Harris, the sexy adventurist who’s also in search of the million-dollar jewels, and the pair engages in a wild scavenger hunt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

I think some people became adventurist because they couldn’t figure out a strategy that was going to work.

From Time • Jan. 30, 2015

I think he's got a little bit -- let me put it this way: I always considered myself a little bit of an adventurist, willing to try out new ideas.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2011

In his trade union he was always seen as a realist and a pragmatist – and an improbable ally of a romantic adventurist like Scargill.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2010

It is an abuse of language if our unenterprising age tries to stigmatize that energetic policy which pursued positive aims as an adventurist policy.

From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von