poacher

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Recent Examples of poacher Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey (Netflix documentary) Rescued from poachers, an endangered baby pangolin embarks on a journey back to the wild with help from a devoted human guardian in this documentary. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 19 Apr. 2025 As a result, poachers will often kill the mother and troop when trying to capture babies. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025 This intervention is part of a growing set of strategies aimed at protecting rhinos from poachers. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025 Former poachers are rangers and guides, turning their knowledge into protection instead of hunting. The Learning Network, New York Times, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for poacher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
Noun
  • Smuggling recipe substitutions News reports and analysis show that smugglers chose a range of fruits and vegetables to move drugs.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 July 2025
  • Most of these smugglers charge around $5,000 and offer a trip from an airport in Montreal or Toronto to a remote part of the border.
    Kristin Tate, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • However, its initial observations have also highlighted its credentials as an asteroid hunter.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 30 June 2025
  • Florida’s native flamingo population, thought to be in the thousands, was wiped out in the early 1900s by hunters seeking the birds’ feathers and meat.
    Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Even today, falconers in the Middle East still regard the gyrfalcon as the most prestigious bird, often breeding them selectively for sport and tradition.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • To make matters even worse, snow pirates, survivalists, bandits, the colonial military force NEVEC, and other factions are fighting over land and resources.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 27 June 2025
  • But the project is also right at home for Laika, as it’s set in a secret forest just outside of Laika’s home in Portland and follows a girl whose baby brother is taken into the forest, only to discover an exotic world of talking animals and bandits.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Groll, who grew up in Naperville but lives in Lincoln Park now, is an avid birder in Winnemac Park.
    Sophie Levenson, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • Because of its rare appearance in the Northern Hemisphere, many birders are flocking to catch a glimpse of the vagrant gull.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, the very same ruling condemned Anthropic for its alternative sourcing method: using pirate websites.
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • To make matters even worse, snow pirates, survivalists, bandits, the colonial military force NEVEC, and other factions are fighting over land and resources.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 27 June 2025

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