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Recent Examples of archer
The elves’ archers do a pretty good job of taking some out, but the orcs have numbers on their side — and a really nasty-looking siege engine.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
The archers used long bows, which required a huge amount of rotation of the spine when pulling back on the bowstring.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Advertisement This armless archer had won many medals.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
Many athletes saw diminished performances, and some tennis players and archers suffered heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
The archers used long bows, which required a huge amount of rotation of the spine when pulling back on the bowstring.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Advertisement This armless archer had won many medals.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
Many athletes saw diminished performances, and some tennis players and archers suffered heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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Photo : 615 Media Hillside Meadows in Franklin, just 15 miles south of downtown Nashville, is a serene residential haven and sportsmen’s paradise spanning 750 acres with 1,600 feet on the Old Natchez Trace, a historic forest trail, and almost 150 feet on the Harpeth River.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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Like the gun, the hunting knife and sometimes the horse or mule, canines assisted professional hunters and sportsmen in securing their quarry.BUCKLEY T. FOSTER Special to the Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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Striking six-foot-tall huntress Haley Fitzgerald of Spruced Plume hunts to eat.Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Pure Evil dispatches Fianna (Rachel House), a huntress who shoots fire lasers from her eyes, to secure the map by any means necessary.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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By continuing to focus on buck bedding areas (similar to early season and pre-rut plans), hunters can find a big ol’ buck.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024
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More:Michigan hunters shot more than 61,000 deer already.Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
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Ruth’s husband, Carl, a veteran Army machine gunner, explained that the couple were returning from a movie theater and had paused to turn on the foyer light.Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Very often, a gunner isn't sure about exactly which ammunition will be needed on a particular mission, so erring on the side of caution means loading up with more than one kind in the feed belt, just in case an armor-piercing round is needed instead of shrapnel.David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
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Felix Sanchez Arrazola / Alamy Stock Photo Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.Reuters, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
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Related article Paris pays tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei who died after allegedly being set on fire by her boyfriend Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.Reuters, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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An outdoorsman and falconer, Kennedy sued companies and government agencies over pollution in the Hudson River and its watershed.Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
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Long considered one of the oldest sports still practiced today, falconry has its participants, or falconers, train birds of prey (falcons, sometimes hawks, eagles or buzzards) to hunt wild game.JP Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
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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
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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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“Archer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archer. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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