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Recent Examples of poacher
In deepest Siberia, where winds blow cold and poachers reduce wild animals to the brink of extinction, an unlikely tale of tiger romance is warming hearts and reinvigorating faith in species reintroduction.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Also within park grounds is the Nairobi Animal Orphanage, a treatment and rehabilitation center for cheetahs, lions, monkeys and other animals injured by poachers.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Defend their home turf, especially from those poachers from elsewhere.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2025
His best moment was a hat-trick against Leganes in December, including two poacher finishes inside the penalty area and a coolly converted spot kick.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Also within park grounds is the Nairobi Animal Orphanage, a treatment and rehabilitation center for cheetahs, lions, monkeys and other animals injured by poachers.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Defend their home turf, especially from those poachers from elsewhere.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2025
His best moment was a hat-trick against Leganes in December, including two poacher finishes inside the penalty area and a coolly converted spot kick.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
Noun
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That said, to be displaced is to be object, material, pushed across borders, overloaded into boats, stuffed into unfit vehicles, herded over mountains by smugglers.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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The show’s namesake character is Cassian Andor, a pilot, played by Diego Luna, who was taken from his home planet as an orphan by sympathetic smugglers.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
Noun
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This anthology film tells of three fierce human warriors – a vengeful Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan and an Allied pilot in World War II – who face off against a deadly alien hunter with otherworldly weaponry and a mean streak.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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The hunter and jumper season will continue at HITS Del Mar with the Del Mar Sunshine Classic on July 9.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Gone were the twisted souls of the Deep South, replaced with stoic ranch hands, rustlers and gunslingers whose lives and fates played out in the harsh midday sun.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2023
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Hikers on the Hidden Valley trail, above, made their way along a one-mile loop that winds among massive boulders, through what is rumored to have been a cattle rustler’s hide-out.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2021
Noun
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Over the following days, participants can marvel as local Kazakh falconers compete on horseback with their eagles in tow, participating in rigorous contests that showcase the natural instincts and abilities of the birds.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The male Harris’ Hawk was brought to justice by its namesake, local resident Steve Harris, who managed to trap it in a cage, before two falconers rushed over to help, one of the falconers, Alan Greenhalgh, told CNN on Friday.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Corridos have long been used to tell stories in Mexico, sometimes recounting the exploits of bandits and outlaws.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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After listening in on the meeting, Nanette offers to help identify the bandits using Kabir’s complaint log.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The pair, Stanford graduates involved in the back-to-the-land movement, were birders with a D.I.Y. sensibility.—
Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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There’s a speech in the final episode of the season, given by Aduba’s birder Metropolitan Police Department consultant Cordelia, that almost feels like a tribute to Braugher.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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Her husband of 36 years – and exactly one week – stayed home with their 2-year-old goldendoodle, Orion, named like the huntsman placed among the stars by a god, and their black Jeep in the driveway.—
Sharif Paget,
CNN,
3 Oct. 2024
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The drawing room had been wallpapered with pictures of huntsmen, onto whose faces the two eldest boys, Jacob and Wilhelm (born in 1785 and 1786, respectively), would cheekily pencil in beards.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Overcoming the first son, the group continues their journey only to face down one after another, each with his own gimmick: The pirate son with his sea-creature half-men minions, for instance; a band of hunters with their own, even deadlier werewolf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Smuggler’s Copter is obviously a very famous card in Magic history, but also just the flavor of Smuggler’s Copter being, in the original set, for a pair of sky pirates.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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