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Recent Examples of poacher
Parking sharks—poachers who trail the sweeper in order to slip into vacated spaces—are handled through mob justice.
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Skarsgård plays a man charged with protecting endangered tigers who is given the challenging task of hunting down and killing a tiger who killed a poacher in self-defense.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Abalone remain the target of poachers, and there is an extensive black market that pays a premium for them, Windsor police said.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
In deepest Siberia, where winds blow cold and poachers reduce wild animals to the brink of extinction, an unlikely tale of tiger romance is warming hearts and reinvigorating faith in species reintroduction.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Skarsgård plays a man charged with protecting endangered tigers who is given the challenging task of hunting down and killing a tiger who killed a poacher in self-defense.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Abalone remain the target of poachers, and there is an extensive black market that pays a premium for them, Windsor police said.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
In deepest Siberia, where winds blow cold and poachers reduce wild animals to the brink of extinction, an unlikely tale of tiger romance is warming hearts and reinvigorating faith in species reintroduction.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
Noun
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The show’s namesake character is Cassian Andor, a pilot, played by Diego Luna, who was taken from his home planet as an orphan by sympathetic smugglers.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
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That said, to be displaced is to be object, material, pushed across borders, overloaded into boats, stuffed into unfit vehicles, herded over mountains by smugglers.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Wolves are vicious and intelligent group hunters, but dogs and thunderstorms famously do not mix.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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On May 8, a hunter discovered human remains on Cedar Mountain, and after alerting authorities about the finding, law enforcement responded to the area and retrieved them, the Kane County Sheriff's Office reported this week.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Gone were the twisted souls of the Deep South, replaced with stoic ranch hands, rustlers and gunslingers whose lives and fates played out in the harsh midday sun.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2023
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Hikers on the Hidden Valley trail, above, made their way along a one-mile loop that winds among massive boulders, through what is rumored to have been a cattle rustler’s hide-out.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2021
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Over the following days, participants can marvel as local Kazakh falconers compete on horseback with their eagles in tow, participating in rigorous contests that showcase the natural instincts and abilities of the birds.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The male Harris’ Hawk was brought to justice by its namesake, local resident Steve Harris, who managed to trap it in a cage, before two falconers rushed over to help, one of the falconers, Alan Greenhalgh, told CNN on Friday.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But after a bandit attack leaves the children orphaned, the son dies.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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To make matters worse, it is hosted by former Family Feud kissing bandit Richard Dawson (who, let the record show, is a fantastic movie villain).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Lake Hodges near Escondido is a major grebe nesting location where birders enjoy following the nesting process that begins with the weaving of reeds into floating mats where eggs are then deposited. Loons, coots, rails and gallinules are also floating nest builders.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Some birders have spotted him at 63rd Street Beach in Jackson Park on the city’s South Side.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
12 May 2025
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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The Sea Witch By Eva Leigh Canary Street Press: 448 pages, $19 (Aug. 26) Leigh has penned a pirate romantasy with an ultra-hot relationship at its center.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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However, the sugars in a molasses spray caused an increase of beneficial insects such as adult lacewings, lady beetles, weevil parasitoids, big-eyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, and adult hover flies.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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