bounty hunter
noun
1
: one who tracks down and captures outlaws for whom a reward is offered
2
: one who hunts predatory animals for the reward offered
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Officials around the state pay bounty hunters to help control Burmese python populations and have attached tracking devices to male snakes, which leads them to egg-laying females.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2025
Soon the reasoning for that bit of concealment becomes clear: a team of bounty hunters has alighted on the town, looking for someone named Washington Black.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
The South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have also deployed python bounty hunters, who have removed nearly 16,000 of the snakes since 2019, per the Palm Beach Post.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
Incidents of impostors masquerading as law enforcement have compounded the situation, along with rumors — so far unverified — that federal authorities have enlisted bounty hunters or private security contractors for immigration arrests.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2025
Soon the reasoning for that bit of concealment becomes clear: a team of bounty hunters has alighted on the town, looking for someone named Washington Black.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
The South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have also deployed python bounty hunters, who have removed nearly 16,000 of the snakes since 2019, per the Palm Beach Post.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
Incidents of impostors masquerading as law enforcement have compounded the situation, along with rumors — so far unverified — that federal authorities have enlisted bounty hunters or private security contractors for immigration arrests.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
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“Bounty hunter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bounty%20hunter. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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