as in archers
a person who hunts game
hunters must have a license to shoot deer
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Recent Examples of hunters
Narrow job growth means fewer opportunities The low-hire, low-fire environment is leaving workers and job hunters with few opportunities.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
The team then began tracking the alligator using Appleton's sonar device and found it at the bottom of the lake, submerged 16 feet deep, the hunters told the Clarion-Ledger.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Smith shot the brothers, and then floated away on the Squirrel River in the hunters’ inflatable boat, along with their food and guns.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
For safari hunters, there’s the Platinum Surf and Turf platter, a $999 meal with a Wagyu tomahawk steak the size of a canoe paddle and a 28-ounce lobster tail.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
All the hunters were in their mid-thirties to mid-forties.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
During the muzzleloading deer season, hunters in zones 2 and 3 may use any firearm that is legal for the zone.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The film follows Huntr/X, a KPop girl group whose members double as demon hunters.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
The team then began tracking the alligator using Appleton's sonar device and found it at the bottom of the lake, submerged 16 feet deep, the hunters told the Clarion-Ledger.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Smith shot the brothers, and then floated away on the Squirrel River in the hunters’ inflatable boat, along with their food and guns.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
For safari hunters, there’s the Platinum Surf and Turf platter, a $999 meal with a Wagyu tomahawk steak the size of a canoe paddle and a 28-ounce lobster tail.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
All the hunters were in their mid-thirties to mid-forties.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
During the muzzleloading deer season, hunters in zones 2 and 3 may use any firearm that is legal for the zone.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The film follows Huntr/X, a KPop girl group whose members double as demon hunters.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Hunters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunters. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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