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Recent Examples of poacher
Some were searching for poachers, others wildfires.
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Saint Ekpali, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024
Meru was all but lost to poachers in the 1980s and 90s, but in recent years has been reclaimed, rehabilitated and repopulated.
—Holden Frith, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Oct. 2024
With a total budget of barely $40,000 per year, CATS also helps search the national park for snares set by bushmeat poachers and carries out an extensive conservation education program designed primarily to teach people how to stay safe around elephants.
—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
More recently, giraffes have been targeted by hunters and poachers for bushmeat.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Saint Ekpali, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024
Meru was all but lost to poachers in the 1980s and 90s, but in recent years has been reclaimed, rehabilitated and repopulated.
—Holden Frith, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Oct. 2024
With a total budget of barely $40,000 per year, CATS also helps search the national park for snares set by bushmeat poachers and carries out an extensive conservation education program designed primarily to teach people how to stay safe around elephants.
—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
More recently, giraffes have been targeted by hunters and poachers for bushmeat.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
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From Mexico: She and her daughter were locked without food in a hotel room for a day, where smugglers were demanding an additional thousand dollars before the two of them would be allowed to continue to the border.Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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The 50-year-old is the latest to be sentenced in a network of human remains smugglers that stretched from the morgue of the Harvard University Medical School to an Arkansas mortuary.Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
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At least, this was what some of the first dinosaur hunters in the West said.Caroline Winterer / Made by History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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From these and other bits of evidence, Dart concluded that Australopithecus had been a ferocious hunter who had wielded animal bones as clubs.Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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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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Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Nationwide, charging executives say the issue is more pronounced in urban centers, with particularly consistent problems in Las Vegas, Seattle, and Oakland, California. RELATED: Magid: EV shoppers finally have plenty of choices Many of these cord bandits are on the hunt for copper.Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
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This field guide is considered the best for new birders.Fox News, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
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An avid birder too, often disappearing behind the lens of her binoculars.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 17 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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Disney's Treasure Planet is a fantastical re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island, focused on space pirates setting out to track down a world filled with treasure.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Better to stick with the Bogie and Bacall babies and the Park Slope pirates.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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