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Recent Examples of archer
Her skills as a high-level archer, her medical knowledge as a traveling dialysis technician and her horticultural training proved crucial to her survival.
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Viola Flowers, NBC news, 17 May 2025
Standing at 823 feet, Arthur's Seat's height was historically considered the maximum distance an archer could shoot an arrow, hence the name.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Some people may have been scratching their heads when kids started screaming and crying after seeing a pig wearing a crown; With zombie pig men and skeleton archers riding spiders, why would this specific creature elicit such a guttural reaction?
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Viola Flowers, NBC news, 17 May 2025
Standing at 823 feet, Arthur's Seat's height was historically considered the maximum distance an archer could shoot an arrow, hence the name.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Some people may have been scratching their heads when kids started screaming and crying after seeing a pig wearing a crown; With zombie pig men and skeleton archers riding spiders, why would this specific creature elicit such a guttural reaction?
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archer
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Unusually for a Victorian sportsman, Wingfield marketed his game equally to men and women, and the fad spread rapidly through the gardens of England and beyond.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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Macaluso, too, suggests that rather than fighting over redfish, sportsmen ought to expand their notions of which fish are desirable.—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2025
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Ephesus also includes the remains of the Temple of Artemis (or Diana) a huntress and goddess of fertility.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Located in a panoramic point of Villa d’Este, the Grotto of Diana, the goddess huntress symbolizing virtue, is a cruciform plan nymphaeum located in the Cardinal’s Walk and was built between 1570 and 1572 by Paolo Calandrino.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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The game will start with a new setting, with vault hunters leaving previous installments setting of Pandora for the all-new planet of Kairos, and will confront a villain called The Timekeeper.—
Jonathan Zavaleta,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
23 July 2025
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During the Vietnam War, Chinese antiaircraft gunners routinely shot at American planes over North Vietnam, and Chinese aircraft engaged U.S. jets that crossed into Chinese airspace.—
Carter Malkasian,
Foreign Affairs,
17 July 2025
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Reid had some praise for Thornton a couple weeks ago, and the receiver has also worked as a gunner on special teams in recent practices, which could help his roster versatility.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2025
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Basketball star Angel Reese won sportswoman of the year for the third year in a row.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
10 June 2025
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Felix Sanchez Arrazola / Alamy Stock Photo Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
10 Sep. 2024
Noun
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This is a rite of passage, and a major time commitment, which many falconers don’t even attempt, choosing instead to buy birds from breeders or capture adults and release them at the end of the season.—
Nick Kelley,
Outdoor Life,
24 July 2025
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Other records from old news sources in previous decades are less credible, for the most part, says Lauren McGough a falconer and cultural anthropologist who studies the relationships between humans and eagles.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
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Red velvet and leather banquettes call for intimate gatherings while the main room has an eccentric vibe of huntsmen lodge meets medieval garden.—
Christina Liao,
Forbes.com,
21 July 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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“Archer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archer. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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