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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

More of that later, but we're with her to talk about Land, her sweeping new tale centred around the story of an Irish mapmaker working for the British army in the mid-19th Century.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

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

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025

He was known as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, mapmaker, student of nature and doubtless a dozen other things we’ll learn in the course of this documentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

And until I turned nine and turned to video games, that was what I wanted to be when I grew up: a mapmaker.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini




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