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Recent Examples of woodsman
They are joined by a talking bluebird with a secret (Melanie Lynskey) and continuously cross paths with a woodsman (Christopher Lloyd) who warns them of an evil sentient darkness called the Beast.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
No: the woodsman, Takumi (Hitoshi Omika, a first-time actor who has previously been an assistant director to Hamaguchi), is helping gather water for making the noodles served in a restaurant that the other man and the other man’s wife run.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
French Canadian woodsmen in the 1600s believed that the trees quaked in fear because the cross on which Jesus was crucified was made of aspen.
—Michael C Grant, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
What follows is nothing short of disastrous: Coach and Schmidt compete to prove who's the best woodsman, while Cece and Winston bond over a shared dislike for the outdoors.
—Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2023
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
No: the woodsman, Takumi (Hitoshi Omika, a first-time actor who has previously been an assistant director to Hamaguchi), is helping gather water for making the noodles served in a restaurant that the other man and the other man’s wife run.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
French Canadian woodsmen in the 1600s believed that the trees quaked in fear because the cross on which Jesus was crucified was made of aspen.
—Michael C Grant, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
What follows is nothing short of disastrous: Coach and Schmidt compete to prove who's the best woodsman, while Cece and Winston bond over a shared dislike for the outdoors.
—Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodsman
Noun
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Though Park makes of Finn a charming, ex-hippie mountain man, indulgent of Jesse’s quest because he’s found solace in the redwoods from a tragedy of his own, Becca, having perhaps too conveniently also faced tragedy, counters with a passion for protocol.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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It is named after longtime local environmental and snowpack researcher billy barr, a reclusive mountain man who prefers spelling his name using lowercase letters.—
Morgan Tilton,
The Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One of the world’s leading storytellers on the International Space Station’s modern-day space odyssey told me that the ISS must be saved for explorers of the future.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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In 1935, American explorers piloted a balloon called Explorer II to the stratosphere.—
Carl Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
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And none more, maybe, than for Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger whose body-armored exploits have made him a muse since the dawn of cinema.—
Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2020
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Ned gets his shot at revenge against O’Neil in a scene that plays like an unnerving castration fantasy, egged on by Harry Power (a superb Russell Crowe), the famous bushranger who takes the boy under wing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2020
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“Woodsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodsman. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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