Thesaurus results for NAVIGATED

navigated

verb

past tense of navigate

as in steered

to operate or control the course of the hours of training that are required before a student pilot is allowed to navigate an airplane solo

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as in sailed

to travel on water in a vessel the months that were once required to navigate around South America in the days before the Panama Canal

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as in traversed

to make one's way through, across, or over it will take some effort to navigate that stretch of hills, but we can do it

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Recent Examples of navigated Air rescue and airboat crews navigated the swampy terrain to reach the victims. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026 Tyler Wells navigated the rest of the fifth inning to keep the score at 3-2. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 By the time a patient sits down with an oncologist, the care team may have already navigated prior authorization and assembled clinical documentation from multiple sources. — Jackie Njoroge, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Kelela expertly navigated this conversation while promoting her immersive New Avatar, which surveys indie rock, shoegaze and grunge from an R&B vantage point. — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026 How has the gallery navigated ups and downs and maintained the business side? — Lina Lecaro, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026 To reach it, BAS researchers set off from the Falkland Islands and navigated rough seas for two weeks. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 Barra has since navigated a global pandemic, tariffs and supply-chain chaos, and the rise of AI as an unstoppable and industry-shaking force. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Accessibility The resort does not have any ADA-compliant villas, and there are some steps throughout the property navigated typically by golf cart. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026

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The plane’s first officer, an Omani man named Hamam al-Hammami, had assaulted the plane’s Indian captain with an emergency axe and steered the aircraft into a nosedive.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Backup Ty Dieffenbach steered UCLA to a win, but the Bruins need better quarterback depth.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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Needing 11 yards on fourth down to continue their drive and cut into a 23-7 Packers lead, Prescott narrowly avoided a sack before lofting a pass that sailed out the back of the end zone, not close to any particular Cowboys receiver.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Yet Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare – senior Tory politician, former athlete, bestselling novelist and bon viveur – simply sailed on.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of sailed

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According to Clarksons, 36 percent of container capacity routed via the canal or the Cape of Good Hope traversed the Suez in early October, up from 8 percent between 2024 and mid-2026.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Concerns over driverless robotaxis, such as the Waymo vehicles that have traversed the Atlanta streets since last year, are also reasonable.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of traversed

Verb

Robb Report piloted it around Belgium, and the famed TV show Top Gear reviewed it in what would be its final episode.

— Howard Walker, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
Alongside its longstanding classroom-in-residence program, in which fourth- through sixth-grade classes spend a week at the museum, the Hammer piloted its classroom partnership program under Ryan.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of piloted

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Treasury said Caspian had transported IRGC personnel and weapons to Syria and said Meraj had ferried illicit cargo, including weapons, to the Syrian government.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But that requires arms with minor-league options who can be ferried between Triple-A Albuquerque and Denver.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of ferried

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Another 24 new releases are lined up for the rest of the year; most of them originals (20) followed by new seasons (3) and a saga.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
What followed was a difficult stretch, with works by Cy Twombly, George Condo, Alberto Giacometti, and Lucian Freud among those failing to find buyers.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of followed

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Scores of drones have crossed into Romanian airspace over the past two years, with officials attributing many of the incursions to Russia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Twenty-six seconds earlier, Nicole Shelton of Morristown, New Jersey, had crossed the finish line with little fanfare.

— Vivian Yao, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of crossed

Verb

Later in the inning, Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia walked in the tying run (credited to starter Tyler Glasnow for having initially loaded the bases).

— Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Finklea and his friend Ira Williams, 70, were shot to death when someone walked up to Finklea’s car along Northwest 30th Avenue and fired more than a dozen shots.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

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