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Recent Examples of poacher
Fossey dedicated herself to studying mountain gorillas in their Congo homeland, and lost her life in their cause: in 1985 she was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda while working to protect the gorillas from poachers.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
In 2007, two poachers were caught stealing 17 saguaros from Saguaro National Park and surrounding county land.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Those relatively few poachers who do face justice often walk with minor fines and other penalties.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
Madrid also seems to have unearthed a gem in Gonzalo Garcia, whom Herrera thinks can be Madrid’s penalty box poacher.
—Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
In 2007, two poachers were caught stealing 17 saguaros from Saguaro National Park and surrounding county land.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Those relatively few poachers who do face justice often walk with minor fines and other penalties.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
Madrid also seems to have unearthed a gem in Gonzalo Garcia, whom Herrera thinks can be Madrid’s penalty box poacher.
—Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
Noun
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Zagani was head of Vlora’s anti-narcotics unit in the late 1990s and had worked with Italian law enforcement in its probe into the smugglers.—
Lindita Cela,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Officials also alleged Galeano had sought to smuggle her teenage children into the country, paying smugglers to do so.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Given a head start, contestants have to survive for 30 days, checking in every 24 hours and pursued by five armed and deadly hunters who are never short of tip-offs from the public.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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The catch is that he’s being stalked by McCone (Lee Pace), a hunter with an impeccable catch-and-kill record, and his psychopathic goons.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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Siringo was appointed a New Mexico Ranger in 1916 and for two years saw active service against cattle rustlers.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Now comes Bryan Burrough’s new book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, to end the scrubbing of Hardin’s life of crime, along with those of many other murdering cattle rustlers, cheating saloon gamblers, and quick-draw vigilantes.—
Clifford Krauss,
Air Mail,
7 June 2025
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Puryear has skills as a woodworker, a printmaker, a draftsman, and even as a falconer, but his greatest gift as an artist is his ability to keep all these things in play at once.—
Susan Tallman,
New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2025
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The only move Lazio have made, apart from the sale of Loum Tchaouna to Burnley, was to move out their falconer.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Security analyst Nnamdi Obasi, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group think tank, explained that while extremist groups have wreaked havoc against both Christians and Muslims in the northeast of Nigeria, bandit groups have terrorized predominantly Muslim communities in the northwest.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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The country has faced years of bloodshed from Boko Haram militants and armed bandits, whose motives are often linked more to territorial control and ransom than to religion.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Mike Kimmel, owner of Martin County Trapping and Wildlife Rescue, told NBC News that the elevated stand has been there for years and the only mystery is whether it was set up by a hunter, birder or wildlife photographer.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
2 Nov. 2025
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Ingelsby’s uncle, a former Augustinian priest who inspired the character of Tom, is a birder.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Fowlers have three children — including a son and daughter who are also Chapman alumni — 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and divide their time between residences on the East and West Coasts.—
Orange County Register,
Orange County Register,
28 Mar. 2017
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The book, which is from Australia, follows Bee and her fellow runaways, who discover a new friend, Paco, is a Lost Boy from Neverland who needs them to fight hordes of pirates led by a merciless new leader.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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One could be seen wearing an all-denim outfit with an In-N-Out Burger employee hat, while the other wore a floral-print dress with a pirate-style hat.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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