archer

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Recent Examples of archer Just as archers practice visualization and cognitive reframing to manage stress and maintain composure in challenging situations, leaders can also use scenario planning and self-talk to become more resilient. Juan Carlos Holgado michael D. Watkins, Harvard Business Review, 16 Aug. 2024 Jordan competes in the recurved bow category, which has limbs at the top and bottom of the bow that curve away from the archer. Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 29 July 2024 Olympic archers miss the center ring at a similar rate. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024 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. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for archer 
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Noun
  • Any sportsman of conscience should do what is right: Boycott Afghanistan.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Gates and many others were successful in convincing sportsmen from across the country that the Colorado fight was an inflection point for all hunters, that the strategy hunting opponents were attempting to execute in Colorado would soon visit other states if not stopped in the Rockies.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Full of inside references, the script introduces Simba’s mother, Sarabi (Tiffany Boone), as a gifted huntress, reveals baobab-dwelling Rafiki’s roots and even goes so far as to show the formation of Pride Rock.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In the first story, 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, only to be dragged to a treacherous magical land by a beast-like creature who demands retribution.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • However, in this case the hunter became the hunted.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Named for the celestial hunter, the Orionid meteor shower has a long duration, from September 26 to November 22.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Russian gunners opened fire, lighting up the early morning sky.
    David Axe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Trucks will have to stick to the few roads leading into the salient, making their movements predictable for Ukrainian drone operators and artillery gunners.
    David Axe, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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  • Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.
    M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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