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
Screenshots from a video a fisher captured of a bald eagle soaring through the sky and snagging a fish out of a lake in Canada.
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
That includes rangers who were monitoring animals like the endangered Pacific fisher in California’s Yosemite National Park.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Government attorneys say the fisheries service's letter merely notified commercial fishers of a change that had already taken place through Trump's authority to remove the prohibition on commercial fishing in certain areas.
—Arkansas Online, 10 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
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
That includes rangers who were monitoring animals like the endangered Pacific fisher in California’s Yosemite National Park.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Government attorneys say the fisheries service's letter merely notified commercial fishers of a change that had already taken place through Trump's authority to remove the prohibition on commercial fishing in certain areas.
—Arkansas Online, 10 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fisher
fisherman
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Search efforts are underway for a college kayak fisherman who went missing on Toledo Bend Reservoir Wednesday.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
25 Sep. 2025
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The company pays the fishermen, who aren’t allowed to fish, a couple Peruvian sol.—
Sabrina Weiss,
The Dial,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Fisher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fisher. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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