bounty hunter
noun
1
: one who tracks down and captures outlaws for whom a reward is offered
2
: one who hunts predatory animals for the reward offered
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The state also pays bounty hunters to catch Burmese pythons through the FWC's Python Patrol program.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Blanchett portrayed an infamous bounty hunter who forms an unlikely alliance with a ragtag team of misfits while on a quest to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Is Teacup’s masked man the bounty hunter, while whatever is inside Arlo is the first alien?
—James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
Jackson established that a state can effectively immunize an unconstitutional law from federal judicial review simply by using bounty hunters to enforce it.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Blanchett portrayed an infamous bounty hunter who forms an unlikely alliance with a ragtag team of misfits while on a quest to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Is Teacup’s masked man the bounty hunter, while whatever is inside Arlo is the first alien?
—James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
Jackson established that a state can effectively immunize an unconstitutional law from federal judicial review simply by using bounty hunters to enforce it.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Bounty hunter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bounty%20hunter. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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