mountain man

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Recent Examples of mountain man Though Park makes of Finn a charming, ex-hippie mountain man, indulgent of Jesse’s quest because he’s found solace in the redwoods from a tragedy of his own, Becca, having perhaps too conveniently also faced tragedy, counters with a passion for protocol. Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 It is named after longtime local environmental and snowpack researcher billy barr, a reclusive mountain man who prefers spelling his name using lowercase letters. Morgan Tilton, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 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 Thanks to an epic job search that... The Other Kind of Snowbird Helen Guri My dad is a mountain man. Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mountain man
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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
  • When Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto’s expedition entered the region in 1542, the Caddo's thriving communities dispersed along the Brazos, Trinity, Neches, Sabine, Red and Ouachita rivers.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 20 July 2025
  • French explorer Samuel de Champlain named the St. John River for St. John the Baptist from the Christian Bible in 1604.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • That mission reached orbit with a pathfinder version of Blue Ring meant to validate the spacecraft's mechanics and avionics.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 July 2025
  • The Space Development Agency (SDA) launched a batch of prototype missile-tracking and data-relay satellites in 2023, pathfinders for a constellation of hundreds of spacecraft in low-Earth orbit that will begin launching later this year.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2025

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“Mountain man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20man. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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