as in archer
a person who hunts game hunters must have a license to shoot deer

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Recent Examples of hunter In previous games, players had to position their hunter so that attacks hit specific weak points, which sometimes felt ambiguous. Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025 Its reimagining acquires a true crime edge: as individual dinosaur remains unearthed by dinosaur hunters, thanks to cutting-edge science, experts work out how these prehistoric creatures lived, hunted, fought and died more accurately than ever before. John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025 As a cursed vampire hunter equipped initially with only a whip, the player was cast perilously in Dracula’s gargantuan mansion. Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 Plesiosaurs were considered among the most successful marine hunters of their time. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunter
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Noun
  • When Katniss' sister Prim is selected, the archer volunteers as tribute in Prim's place.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In the movie’s trailer, an archer takes aim at an enemy soldier, firing an arrow that sends the man plunging over the side of his ship—and into the waiting jaws of a shark.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
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  • The drawing room had been wallpapered with pictures of huntsmen, onto whose faces the two eldest boys, Jacob and Wilhelm (born in 1785 and 1786, respectively), would cheekily pencil in beards.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Her husband of 36 years – and exactly one week – stayed home with their 2-year-old goldendoodle, Orion, named like the huntsman placed among the stars by a god, and their black Jeep in the driveway.
    Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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  • Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.
    M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
  • An outdoorsman and falconer, Kennedy sued companies and government agencies over pollution in the Hudson River and its watershed.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024

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“Hunter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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