bushranger

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Recent Examples of bushranger 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 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, 23 Apr. 2020 The drama follows the ne'er-do-well's boyhood as an accomplice to a criminal bushranger (Russell Crowe), Ned's contempt for the law when his mother (Essie Davis) is unfairly imprisoned, and his anarchic days as an adult running a rebellious gang. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020 The world's first feature film, called The Story of the Kelly Gang, is an hour-plus romp about a band of outlaw Australian bushrangers. Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020 But the fateful Glenrowan showdown with an incoming trainload of cops doesn't go as planned, as anyone familiar with the bushranger's legend will know. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bushranger
Noun
  • Lester’s a tall, slim woodsman — a regular storybook guide – who has been in that territory for 35 years.
    Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 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
Noun
  • Though Park makes of Finn a charming, ex-hippie mountain man, indulgent of Jesse’s quest because he’s found solace in the redwoods from a tragedy of his own, Becca, having perhaps too conveniently also faced tragedy, counters with a passion for protocol.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • It is named after longtime local environmental and snowpack researcher billy barr, a reclusive mountain man who prefers spelling his name using lowercase letters.
    Morgan Tilton, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One of the world’s leading storytellers on the International Space Station’s modern-day space odyssey told me that the ISS must be saved for explorers of the future.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • In 1935, American explorers piloted a balloon called Explorer II to the stratosphere.
    Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025

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