How to Use pathfinder in a Sentence

pathfinder

noun
  • This isn’t the last lift for the core stage pathfinder, either.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Her mother was a pathfinder for her in more than the United Way.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Find more details about the Pathfinder on Phil Pauley’s website.
    — Duncan Geere, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2011
  • To that end, the core stage of the pathfinder Ariane 6 rocket has reached the European launch site in French Guiana, the agency says.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The nipples on the tetas of the nanny Fidelia were the navigator, the pathfinder, the salvation of all those who lost their way.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The test flight will launch a pathfinder version of Blue Ring, a new spacecraft platform the company has built.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There are pathfinder replicas made for all major flight parts.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • LISA Pathfinder is now little more than debris floating in the vastness of space.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2017
  • The pathfinder remained onboard New Glenn’s second stage for the duration of the six-hour mission.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Only decades later did Hay receive his due as a gay-rights pathfinder.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
  • Medina-Chevez works as an Uber driver, police say, and left home in a 2008 dark blue Nissan Pathfinder to pick up a client.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 May 2017
  • The pathfinder won't leave the second stage for NG-1, but will test out communication and telemetry.
    — Richard Tribou Orlando Sentinel (tns), arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The Pathfinder struck one vehicle in the rear, causing a seven-car chain reaction crash.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The Wolf Clan in Oneida tradition represent the pathfinders who help guide the people in life the way the Creator intended.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • There were no satellites back then, no apps to find the enemy or Facebook your wife; there was just a pathfinder and a long stream of GIs who would have looked like a row of green ants from a plane.
    — Mary-Louise Parker, Esquire, 13 June 2012
  • The twins are recruits aboard the human ark, which is partly commanded by their father Alec Ryder, the Pathfinder.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Authorities say Lazo drove the Pathfinder and Gomez sat in the front passenger seat, and the duo passed the handgun between them and took turns firing.
    — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 May 2017
  • That may sound like science fiction, but ESA has already sent a pathfinder mission to space to test the technology.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Lenski was a pathfinder who followed her youthful passion for art.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • It was launched as a pathfinder for the Moon-orbiting outpost called Gateway, which will eventually form part of the Artemis program.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Ramaphosa called Madikizela-Mandela a giant, a pathfinder, a healer and an eternal beauty.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • First came a tiny pathfinder, Sojourner, that in 1997 showed roving was possible.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The pathfinder will remain on New Glenn’s second stage for the entirety of the approximately six-hour mission.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, there will still be the day when the power levels drop to the point where Mission Control will have no choice but to order the mechanical pathfinders to turn themselves off completely.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The CubeSat will act as a pathfinder for Gateway, an orbiting lunar outpost that will serve as a way station between Earth and the moon for astronauts.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • Blue Origin’s pathfinder spacecraft is slated to launch atop one of the company’s New Glenn rockets, which was set to make its debut flight Monday morning.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Enlarge / Amazon is counting on the Vulcan rocket, a pathfinder for which is shown here, to deliver a large number of satellites into space.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • As a pathfinder, Sanders was responsible for setting up drop zones for airborne troops and landing zones for helicopters.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
  • But while so many guitarists and companies alike are chasing the vintage tone of decades past, the French pathfinders at Kernom are exclusively looking toward the future.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike mining outposts and XPrize pathfinders, a moon base seems too big and complex for any single company or nation to operate alone.
    — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2017

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