as in fisherman
someone who catches fish
few fishers of lake trout are more ardent or adept than my father
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Recent Examples of fisher
The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders to catch the fish.
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Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
The bill, which passed in the Senate on Tuesday and now heads to the House, creates a tax exemption for fishers from western Alaskan villages and a separate provision that gives some whaling captains in the state the ability to deduct $50,000 of their expenses, a fivefold increase.
—Rachel Scully, The Hill, 2 July 2025
All fishers 13 years and older need a license to fish in Tennessee.
—Allison Kiehl, The Tennessean, 30 June 2025
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Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
The bill, which passed in the Senate on Tuesday and now heads to the House, creates a tax exemption for fishers from western Alaskan villages and a separate provision that gives some whaling captains in the state the ability to deduct $50,000 of their expenses, a fivefold increase.
—Rachel Scully, The Hill, 2 July 2025
All fishers 13 years and older need a license to fish in Tennessee.
—Allison Kiehl, The Tennessean, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fisher
fisherman
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Extend your stay in Portorosso with the 2021 short Ciao Alberto, which follows Alberto working for the intimidating fisherman Massimo (Marco Barricelli).—
Sydni Ellis,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Cris Collinsworth, a generous fisherman, let CeeDee off the hook.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Fisher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fisher. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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