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- noun Plural form of
nighthawk .
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Examples
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If it were revealed, Twinn fears the site would be quickly plundered by "nighthawks" - detectorists working illegally and without the landowner's permission.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Researchers found knowledgeable criminals, dubbed nighthawks, are using auction websites such as eBay to cash in on what was once an illicit hobby.
Antiquities Theft in the U.K. Jan 2009
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The specific location of the find is being kept secret for fear that so-called 'nighthawks' will descend on it in case there is anything else to be found.
Treasurer Trove! Jan 2008
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The specific location of the find is being kept secret for fear that so-called 'nighthawks' will descend on it in case there is anything else to be found.
Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008
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Michael Lewis of the British Museum says "nighthawks" are giving metal detecting a bad name.
Marketplace 2009
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He followed this with Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling and, for good measure, a fair portion of Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, by which time he held the attention of the nighthawks of Midtown.
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The book opens by contemplating 3 a.m., a "watery half-world, where bats and nighthawks flit," and closes with 2 a.m., "the invisible suture where the closed circle of life was welded in the fires of creation."
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We carried our food to the banks of the barrow-pit pond and watched nighthawks give way to bats as the sun set in the southwest.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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We carried our food to the banks of the barrow-pit pond and watched nighthawks give way to bats as the sun set in the southwest.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Many nights an item prompts a call to wake the NCTC director, Michael Leiter, 41, the junior member of the nighthawks.
President Obama's nighthawks: Top officials charged with guarding the nation's safety story Laura Blumenfeld photos by Melina Mara in dead of night 2010
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