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mapmaker

[map-mey-ker] / ˈmæpˌmeɪ kər /
NOUN
cartographer
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Then one day the mapmaker stumbles on a sacred grove that delivers him a vision and a mission.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

He saw the mapmaker get tripped up by his own alleged cover story, and he ruled accordingly.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2025

But the mapmaker is still deciding which things to show and which things not to show.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

As a marker of Mali’s enduring fame in the fourteenth century, the Majorcan mapmaker Abraham Cresques featured it in The Catalan Atlas in 1375.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“Smart girl. A mapmaker, better than anyone, should know which way to go.”

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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