as in night rider
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Sulca joined the local ronda—night patrols formed by peasants to protect their communities from the Shining Path—whom Quechua speakers call tuta puriqkuna, nightwalkers, a term also used to describe Spaniards during colonial times.
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Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
Eliot Schrefer’s new Lost Rainforest series casts sunset as nature’s own Mason-Dixon line, dividing animal kind into daywalkers and nightwalkers — two factions with a xenophobic fear of one another.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Because the one thing nightwalkers and daywalkers agree on is that shadowwalkers are an abomination of nature.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
Eliot Schrefer’s new Lost Rainforest series casts sunset as nature’s own Mason-Dixon line, dividing animal kind into daywalkers and nightwalkers — two factions with a xenophobic fear of one another.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Because the one thing nightwalkers and daywalkers agree on is that shadowwalkers are an abomination of nature.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightwalker
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By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
31 July 2023
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The land swap between Resolution Copper and the U.S. Forest Service to build the mine was enacted by a late-night rider to a defense appropriations bill in December 2014 by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
The Arizona Republic,
19 Dec. 2020
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“Nightwalker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightwalker. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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