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fisherman

noun

ˈfi-shər-mən

Definition of fisherman

as in fisher

someone who catches fish fishermen sorting out their catch

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Recent Examples of fisherman The script was about a last draft-pick NFL player who gets injured on his very first play and returns home to Alaska to become a fisherman. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026 About 300 military personnel, police and rescue workers searched along Ensenada's El Pipila stream Tuesday, while the Mexican navy continued looking for the missing fishermen, state civil protection authorities said. — Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026 Adrift Buendía Estudios Canarias, Boomerang TV, Atresmedia Five fishermen, who are presumed dead, return home two years later, upending the lives their wives had rebuilt without them. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 The Hero With a Tragic Backstory Below stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a fisherman fallen on hard times who now retrieves chunks of floating Arctic ice to be used in making vodka and reluctantly AirBnBs his home to tourists. — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fisherman

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fisher

Noun

Bycatch — marine life caught unintentionally while fishers target something else — makes up 2% of the pollock fishery’s total catch.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
With spotters overlooking the fjords and communicating from land, fishers set fires in canoes to lure tuna close enough to harpoon.

— Torben Rick, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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