as in archer
a person who hunts game hunters must have a license to shoot deer

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Recent Examples of hunter People driving to and from the Outer Banks on I-64 kept killing the wolves, while hunters shot them as coyotes. Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2025 Zillow does benefit from consumer traffic to its website, including by selling customer leads and ad space, and also offering house hunters various additional services such as mortgages. Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025 In January, a black bear was shot dead in Pennsylvania after attacking a man on his way home from the grocery store, while in October 2024 the body of a hunter state troopers believe was mauled to death by a bear was found in Alaska. David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025 There are no known trail cam photos or pictures of the buck before it was killed, and the closest thing to a post-hunt photo is so blurred and shadowy that the hunter appears to be sitting on a shoulder mount and not an actual deer. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunter
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  • In survival mode, players have to fend off attacks from enemy creatures like zombies, giant spiders, and skeleton archers that come out at night, almost turning it into a horror game.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
  • An angry archer took aim at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building early Tuesday, shooting three arrows at a glass door, police said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
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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
  • 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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  • Over the following days, participants can marvel as local Kazakh falconers compete on horseback with their eagles in tow, participating in rigorous contests that showcase the natural instincts and abilities of the birds.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The male Harris’ Hawk was brought to justice by its namesake, local resident Steve Harris, who managed to trap it in a cage, before two falconers rushed over to help, one of the falconers, Alan Greenhalgh, told CNN on Friday.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Hunter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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