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a large herd of reindeer
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Made with tender cuts of reindeer meat, potatoes, and carrots, bidos is a simple dish that relies on the quality of its ingredients rather than elaborate seasoning.
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
This land is inhabited by the Nenets people, nomadic reindeer herders who, guided by the seasonal cycles and the needs of their animals, migrate incessantly in an infinite circle of movements between ice, frozen rivers and incessant winds in search of new pastures in the most remote tundra.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
In 1874, when a friend suggested that Hagenbeck display Indigenous Sami herders alongside his next shipment of Scandinavian reindeer, the impresario needed no convincing.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
Rangers and Junior Rangers went out to watch a large herd of reindeer north of Inuvik.
—Gavin John, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
This land is inhabited by the Nenets people, nomadic reindeer herders who, guided by the seasonal cycles and the needs of their animals, migrate incessantly in an infinite circle of movements between ice, frozen rivers and incessant winds in search of new pastures in the most remote tundra.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
In 1874, when a friend suggested that Hagenbeck display Indigenous Sami herders alongside his next shipment of Scandinavian reindeer, the impresario needed no convincing.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
Rangers and Junior Rangers went out to watch a large herd of reindeer north of Inuvik.
—Gavin John, New York Times, 31 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for reindeer
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“Reindeer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reindeer. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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reindeer
noun
rein·deer
ˈrān-ˌdi(ə)r 
plural reindeer also reindeers
: caribou
—used especially for one of the Old World
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