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Recent Examples of poacher
Initially, officers announced a $10,000 cash reward for anyone who had information that could lead to the arrest or citation of the poacher, officials said.
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Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
The South African story follows a young girl on a magical visit to a wildlife reserve that goes horribly wrong when she and the park ranger accompanying her are ambushed by poachers.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
Such, unfortunately, is the case with The Last Ranger, a film about a ranger and her young protégé on a South African game reserve who are suddenly set upon by rhino poachers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
In other words, the bird had lived a full life, which is rare for light-colored prey animals that stick out in their natural habitats and are more easily targeted by predators and more likely targets for poachers.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2024
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Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
The South African story follows a young girl on a magical visit to a wildlife reserve that goes horribly wrong when she and the park ranger accompanying her are ambushed by poachers.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
Such, unfortunately, is the case with The Last Ranger, a film about a ranger and her young protégé on a South African game reserve who are suddenly set upon by rhino poachers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
In other words, the bird had lived a full life, which is rare for light-colored prey animals that stick out in their natural habitats and are more easily targeted by predators and more likely targets for poachers.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
Noun
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The supply lines of this opioid stretch from Chinese labs to Mexican cartels and (via smugglers who are mostly American) to consumers in the U.S.—
Andreas Kluth,
The Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
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According to the government’s sentencing memorandum, Tin aided and abetted turtle smugglers in the U.S. from February 2018 to June 2023.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In a league full of flashy stat hunters, Rollins brings his lunch pail and just goes to work.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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After getting a chocolate Labrador retriever, a young woman was expecting to have a good hunter in the house.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Tyler Sladen, a falconer in the Southwest, has an enormous pack of setters.—
Katie Hill,
Outdoor Life,
24 Feb. 2023
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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
Noun
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Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Instead, her love interest is a charming bandit named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), cut from the same cloth as the animated Flynn from Disney’s Tangled.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Standing atop the region’s picturesque sandstone cliffs, birders can scan the shoreline in search of tiny shorebirds like the sanderling and least sandpiper, while native gulls range from lesser black-backed to ring-billed.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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For example, there are almost 100 million American birders – 37% of the adult population – according to the Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis report, published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2024.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Chan plays Sergeant Dragon Ma, a police officer battling both pirates and gangsters in Hong Kong, and corruption within his law enforcement ranks.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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The scene in Richard Donner's 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies in which the ragtag group of child explorers finally uncover the mythic pirate ship is one of the film's most unforgettable.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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