as in savior
one that saves from danger or destruction
rescuers went out immediately in search of the lost child
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Recent Examples of rescuer
Using towels and a garden hose fitted with a piece of wood, the rescuers guided the frightened kitten through the winding pipes.
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Ronnie Li, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Emergency services deployed 62 rescuers and 22 support vehicles to the crash, according to local media.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Emergency crews—including police, firefighters, and paramedics—rushed to the scene, deploying 62 rescuers and 22 vehicles to assist survivors trapped in the wreckage, local media reports.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Search and rescuers looked for him all night in the remote area but couldn’t find him.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Still, the vessel captain was able to maneuver around them, and rescuers began cutting away at the knotted fishing line.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Ronnie Li, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Emergency services deployed 62 rescuers and 22 support vehicles to the crash, according to local media.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Emergency crews—including police, firefighters, and paramedics—rushed to the scene, deploying 62 rescuers and 22 vehicles to assist survivors trapped in the wreckage, local media reports.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Search and rescuers looked for him all night in the remote area but couldn’t find him.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Still, the vessel captain was able to maneuver around them, and rescuers began cutting away at the knotted fishing line.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rescuer
Noun
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Except, there is one last surviving robot, one that the Inheritance believes will come back to remove all cruelty and misery — Daneel, their savior, their inheritance.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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In a staggering development for global wildlife conservation, the world’s biggest rhino farmer, who has long cast himself as a savior for the species, was arrested in South Africa Tuesday on suspicion of trafficking rhino horn.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The entire nest changes, the child changes and the parents/guardians change.—
Tembi Locke,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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Leaders who grasp this framework will see themselves not just as managers of tasks but as architects of signals, stewards of patterns, cultivators of pathways, and guardians of heuristics.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Rescuer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rescuer. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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