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Recent Examples of woodsman
Thankfully, the woodsman (Ansu Kabia) has a crisis of conscience and tells Snow to book it.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Plunkett is not the first critic to trouble the popular conception of Frost as a wise woodsman dispensing comfort and inspiration.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Cage plays the title character, a working-class guy with a dark past who supervises a crew of roughneck woodsmen.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Local woodsmen supply balsam branches, which are then ground, dried, and pressed into a mold—eschewing chemicals entirely in this natural and sustainable process.
—Jeanne Malle, airmail.news, 4 Dec. 2021
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Plunkett is not the first critic to trouble the popular conception of Frost as a wise woodsman dispensing comfort and inspiration.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Cage plays the title character, a working-class guy with a dark past who supervises a crew of roughneck woodsmen.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Local woodsmen supply balsam branches, which are then ground, dried, and pressed into a mold—eschewing chemicals entirely in this natural and sustainable process.
—Jeanne Malle, airmail.news, 4 Dec. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodsman
Noun
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The clip, taken from the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson, shows Redford in character as a rugged mountain man nodding in quiet approval—a moment that became a staple reaction meme across platforms.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Go beyond the meme and give this one a watch, as Redford stars as a veteran of the Mexican-American War in the 1800s who finds new purpose living life as a mountain man.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In each setting, explorers carry their own light and equipment to places where no one can survive unaided.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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A lot of the literature about Antarctica was written by early explorers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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And none more, maybe, than for Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger whose body-armored exploits have made him a muse since the dawn of cinema.—
Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2020
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Ned gets his shot at revenge against O’Neil in a scene that plays like an unnerving castration fantasy, egged on by Harry Power (a superb Russell Crowe), the famous bushranger who takes the boy under wing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2020
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“Woodsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodsman. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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