bushranger

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Recent Examples of bushranger And none more, maybe, than for Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger whose body-armored exploits have made him a muse since the dawn of cinema. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020 Ned gets his shot at revenge against O’Neil in a scene that plays like an unnerving castration fantasy, egged on by Harry Power (a superb Russell Crowe), the famous bushranger who takes the boy under wing. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020 The drama follows the ne'er-do-well's boyhood as an accomplice to a criminal bushranger (Russell Crowe), Ned's contempt for the law when his mother (Essie Davis) is unfairly imprisoned, and his anarchic days as an adult running a rebellious gang. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020 The world's first feature film, called The Story of the Kelly Gang, is an hour-plus romp about a band of outlaw Australian bushrangers. Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020 But the fateful Glenrowan showdown with an incoming trainload of cops doesn't go as planned, as anyone familiar with the bushranger's legend will know. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bushranger
Noun
  • Most importantly, perhaps, is the fact that The Newt sits within a true working farm, with some 522 people employed across the whole business, including farmers, conservation managers, gardeners, scientists, beekeepers, and woodsmen and women.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Players start with a handful of villagers, which players convert to woodsmen and other roles.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Bridger introduces her to the solitary mountain man, Isaac Reed.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The only people who can help Sara and Devin are Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), a grouchy mountain man, and Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), a mute Shoshone girl fleeing her own violent past.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our relationship brings to mind explorer Phyllis Munday who, along with her husband Don, climbed many peaks in the southern Coast Mountains and elsewhere across British Columbia between the 1910s and the 1940s.
    Sarah Boon June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • Cooper Creek, named somewhat erroneously by early British explorer Charles Sturt, is hardly a creek.
    Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 June 2025

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