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Recent Examples of angler
As in much of McGuane’s fiction, the natural environment—in this case, the vitreous Florida flats, and the angler-tormenting tarpon, permit, and bonefish that populate them—provides the foil.
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Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
Fisheries managers on rivers like the Platte still held out a little, allowing any angler to keep one trout longer than 20 inches.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
Jared Bednar, an avid angler, likes to compare his hockey team over a long season to a boat.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2025
The treasure was found near an angler’s summer house in the Stockholm area, but the exact location is being kept secret for security reasons.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
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Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
Fisheries managers on rivers like the Platte still held out a little, allowing any angler to keep one trout longer than 20 inches.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
Jared Bednar, an avid angler, likes to compare his hockey team over a long season to a boat.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2025
The treasure was found near an angler’s summer house in the Stockholm area, but the exact location is being kept secret for security reasons.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angler
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Thompson plays a widowed fisherwoman who travels alone through snowbound northern Minnesota and interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Aug. 2025
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The film centers on a widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, who interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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The investment makes sense for the comedian, who is an avid fly fisherman in his spare time.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
2 Dec. 2025
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Hunting and fishing guide Donna McDonald, sheep rancher John Helle, fly fisherman and river health advocate Chris Edgington and conservationist Emily Cleveland come from across the state and across the political spectrum, but find common cause in a devotion to public lands.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
24 Nov. 2025
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But a report from Norway's public broadcaster NRK and open-source information showed Russian fishing trawlers made more than a dozen passes over the area before the damage occurred.—
Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
20 Nov. 2025
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Larsen’s camera rarely closes in on its subject, sometimes distantly circling her in ever-grander widescreen swoops, and taking in stray signs of further life in the process: a lighthouse in the background, a trawler ship ominously on the horizon.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Nov. 2025
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For he had been given the task of coordinating the fishermen in charge of feeding the prospectors.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Drug-trafficking networks with links to transnational cartels are active along Ecuador’s coast and have used fishermen and their small boats to transport illicit shipments, according to local police.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Permits were even required for Gazan fisherfolk to use the sea.—
Literary Hub
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Angler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angler. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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