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Recent Examples of poacher
What’s lying beneath the surfaces is even more brutal – poachers in the woods, men waiting to sell women on the black market.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
Hunters and poachers Gauging public attitudes toward carnivores is crucial for their conservation.
—Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
Borja is a quality poacher who thrives on action in the box, but on the night the ball didn’t drop for him often enough.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Gunshots late at night or in the early morning could also be signs of poachers.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
Hunters and poachers Gauging public attitudes toward carnivores is crucial for their conservation.
—Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
Borja is a quality poacher who thrives on action in the box, but on the night the ball didn’t drop for him often enough.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Gunshots late at night or in the early morning could also be signs of poachers.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
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Criminal groups both drove much of the migration and made a several-hundred-million-dollar business out of it, taxing migrant smugglers, charging migrants fees, and kidnapping them for ransom.Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
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While De León interviewed countless migrants and smugglers, his book focuses on the journeys of nearly half a dozen people from Honduras, Mexico and elsewhere.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Black Friday remains the ultimate opportunity for bargain hunters to score discounts on everything from electronics and home appliances, to apparel, toys, and beauty products.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2024
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The 2024 holiday season is shaping out to be a deal hunter's dream.Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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Gone were the twisted souls of the Deep South, replaced with stoic ranch hands, rustlers and gunslingers whose lives and fates played out in the harsh midday sun.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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Hikers on the Hidden Valley trail, above, made their way along a one-mile loop that winds among massive boulders, through what is rumored to have been a cattle rustler’s hide-out.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2021
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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
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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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In another incident, prosecutors allege, the bandits hit a bank in Fall River Mills, California.Stepheny Price, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Later, that spinning motif repeats to connect the dizzying heights the bandits reach and the vertigo of their impending downfall.Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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Native prairie grasses, wildflowers attract pollinators Cities in the Great Lakes are a haven for birders, as the region sits in between the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways, North America’s two bird super highways.Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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His character in the film, Gary Johnson, is a birder, a meticulous kind of guy who relishes observing wildlife before his own life gets actually wild.Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
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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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Since the early 1980s, both pirate copying of 35 mm film prints and of U.S. satellite transmissions likely functioned as sources for Omnivideo Corp., a line of analog videos that carried titles distributed by U.S. companies.Laura-Zoë Humphreys and Daymar Valdés Frigola / Made by History, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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But Armstrong gets to play the savvier, less naive Fern as a bit more of a badass, though all four kids are in over their heads when the ship’s malfunctioning droid (Nick Frost) navigates them straight into a pirate den.Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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