pathfinder
noun
a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
pathfinding
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a word derived from
pathfinder.
Example Sentences
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And on the theme of "pursuit of new horizons," there are artifacts from two pathfinding women who took to the skies.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Some data comes from Maven, the Pentagon’s pathfinding AI project now mostly managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, say officials including retired Air Force Gen. Jack Shanahan, the inaugural Pentagon AI director,
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
And even if dark matter operates through channels invisible to MAGIS-100, the apparatus doubles as a pathfinding gravitational-wave detector.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 14, 2020
Now that our own pathfinding Caldecott and Newbery Medals have long since fulfilled their original promise, why not reimagine them for the world we find ourselves in?
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
The A.H.O. survey expeditions, here on Vesta and on other similar asteroids which were crustal chips of the original planet, had done their work well, pathfinding a means of survival here.
From Asteroid of Fear by Raymond Z. Gallun
