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My dad is a mountain man.
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Bridger introduces her to the solitary mountain man, Isaac Reed.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Irion started thinking of the project as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, inspired in part by 1972’s Jeremiah Johnson, which starred Robert Redford as a mountain man.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
The two old mountain men looked each other in the eye.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Bridger introduces her to the solitary mountain man, Isaac Reed.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Irion started thinking of the project as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, inspired in part by 1972’s Jeremiah Johnson, which starred Robert Redford as a mountain man.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
The two old mountain men looked each other in the eye.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountain man
Noun
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Thankfully, the woodsman (Ansu Kabia) has a crisis of conscience and tells Snow to book it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Plunkett is not the first critic to trouble the popular conception of Frost as a wise woodsman dispensing comfort and inspiration.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2025
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Wang and his three crewmates—filmmaker Jannicke Mikkelsen, roboticist Rabea Rogge and polar explorer Eric Philips—all rode in Resilience, the Crew Dragon vehicle that has flown three other crews (two of them private) to space.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2025
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That shift was not a huge surprise; Relativity Space had stressed that the Terran 1 was a pathfinder for the more powerful Terran R. The Terran R will feature a reusable first stage, like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Of course, there will still be the day when the power levels drop to the point where Mission Control will have no choice but to order the mechanical pathfinders to turn themselves off completely.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Mountain man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20man. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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