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fisherman

noun as in angler

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When my turn came I said: “Mr. Vice President, my name is Rodger Cornell, I’m a small businessman, a conservative and a fly fisherman.”

Its owner, Itaru Sasaki, is a retired fisherman who moved to this spot years ago because of its sweeping views of the sea.

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The governments and families of those killed in the US strikes have said many of the dead were civilians -- primarily fishermen.

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American soldiers, dressed like fishermen in a clothing catalog, floated below in rowboats.

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A stone's throw from Venezuela, in the eye of a political storm fueled by a US naval deployment, fishermen from the archipelago of Trinidad and Tobago fear getting caught up in the tumult.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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