mapmaker

Example Sentences

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In Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, an Irish mapmaker and his family endure poverty and take strength from a connection to the mystic past.

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

The mapmaker was something of a Renaissance man — relatives said he pursued photography, worked as a chauffeur and served as an executive with the Screen Extras Guild, then a union for background actors.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

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