fisherfolk

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Recent Examples of fisherfolk Permits were even required for Gazan fisherfolk to use the sea. Literary Hub august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fisherfolk
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Noun
  • While digging for worms, the fisherman uncovered a massive collection of 12th-century silver.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The law also places restrictions on commercial fishermen, shippers and other marine industries.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Money speaks, the land listens, where the Anarchist skulked, where the horsethief plied his trade, we fishers of Americans will cast our nets of perfect ten-acre mesh, leveled and varmint-proofed, ready to build on.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • See it In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, fishers caught four crab-eating frogs, Fejervarya moodiei, marking the first record of this species in the province.
    Real-Time News team, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Fisherfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fisherfolk. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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