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Recent Examples of poacher
Parking sharks—poachers who trail the sweeper in order to slip into vacated spaces—are handled through mob justice.
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Skarsgård plays a man charged with protecting endangered tigers who is given the challenging task of hunting down and killing a tiger who killed a poacher in self-defense.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Abalone remain the target of poachers, and there is an extensive black market that pays a premium for them, Windsor police said.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
In deepest Siberia, where winds blow cold and poachers reduce wild animals to the brink of extinction, an unlikely tale of tiger romance is warming hearts and reinvigorating faith in species reintroduction.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Skarsgård plays a man charged with protecting endangered tigers who is given the challenging task of hunting down and killing a tiger who killed a poacher in self-defense.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Abalone remain the target of poachers, and there is an extensive black market that pays a premium for them, Windsor police said.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
In deepest Siberia, where winds blow cold and poachers reduce wild animals to the brink of extinction, an unlikely tale of tiger romance is warming hearts and reinvigorating faith in species reintroduction.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
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In a separate incident, two human smugglers were sentenced May 15 after a series of high-speed chases near the border.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
24 May 2025
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And the smugglers’ knack for evolving and evading authorities also appears unchanged.—
Aarne Heikkila,
NBC news,
17 May 2025
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With Badlands set to closely follow the adventures of a young Predator hunter trying to prove himself, this feels like only the beginning for an on-screen expansion of these aliens' history and culture.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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The documentary focuses on the influence Kingsbury had on the film, from both behind and in front of the camera, as the embodiment of Robert Shaw’s iconic shark hunter, Quint.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
6 June 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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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
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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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There were corridos about the exploits of bandits and outlaws, some of them Robin Hood-esque characters who outwitted oafish authorities and helped the poor.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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The Golden State Warriors came out like bandits to open the third quarter of Game 2 on Thursday, pulling to within seven of the Timberwolves early in the frame at Target Center.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
9 May 2025
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To dress Cordelia Cupp the way a real person would dress herself, Paolo spent a lot of time on birding research; the clothes, the gear, what birders actually need to be able to do, the ways specific to the hobby that require participants to move.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Bob Wexler, a local expert birder, will provide information about birds and their habitats. — A wrangler from Gatorland will bring alligators, snakes, lizards and more to the library during a Gatorland Live event at 11 a.m. and noon June 6.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 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
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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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Lion has defected from the Wakandan guard in order to run a band of pirates, and has stolen technology from Wakanda in order to found his own kingdom.—
Kambole Campbell,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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And for Trump’s onetime pirate ship of a political movement, Butterworth’s represents an ostentatious new evolutionary phase: the deplorable as arriviste.—
Robert Draper,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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