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For example, the PVS recruited a Micronesian traditional navigator who trained a Hawaiian staff member in the art of navigating without instruments; that staff member then replicated a voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti, with no instruments.
The fossil fuel industry continues to utilise the revolving lobby door where high ranking government officials and politicians step out from years navigating the inner workings of government to land jobs as advocates and lobbyists.
Myriad local and national Mind charity projects remind us that the people who know best about mental health services are the people that use them, and that often the wisest sources of advice – from staying well, to navigating the NHS, or the social security benefits system – are people who have been mentally ill themselves.
In 2000, Eleanor Maguire at University College London (UCL) and her colleagues discovered that part of a brain region called the hippocampus gets bigger in London taxi drivers with years of navigating the city.
Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
They construct a labyrinth of falsehoods from which it is almost impossible to emerge without the help of people who devote their lives to navigating it.
But as Australia joins the 190-plus other countries navigating the climate stepping stones, it's hard to know whether the Aussies are wearing rubber thongs (those are flip-flops to foreigners) or appropriately stout walking boots.
After living on the ice for two months, the crew sailed their lifeboats to the small and barren Elephant Island, before risking their lives navigating a further 800 nautical miles to the South Georgia whaling stations to find help.
Given the deep racial segregations in the LGBT community of this city and so many like it, leaders like Palmer and Korea Kelly, the mother of the House of Cavalli, need to lead in safely navigating a culture that is open about sex but protective about the potential risks of certain practices.
For Kaberuka, a Rwandan who served as his country's finance minister from 1997 to 2003, navigating the bank through the 2008 financial crisis and helping it to keep its credit rating intact are among his proudest achievements.
With some pushing from Kenny, women are gaining more of that voice in her family's community, navigating the traditions in Indigenous culture that jar with modern feminism.
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Navigating functions primarily as a verb in its present participle form, often used in continuous tenses. As Ludwig AI points out, it describes the act of finding a way or directing a course, whether literal or figurative. Examples from Ludwig illustrate its use in diverse contexts, from "navigating reef passageways" to "navigating the climate stepping stones".
Expression frequency: Very common
