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Recent Examples of herder Real-life herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg star in the film while also serving as co-writers alongside Brady. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025 True progress isn’t measured by towering headquarters; it is seen in rural businesses flourishing, herders gaining access to credit, and digital tools reaching communities once beyond the financial system. Munkhtuya Rentsenbat, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 In the Gabna village, Kuhmunen oversees about 2,500 to 3,000 reindeer and 15 to 20 herders. Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025 Local people rely on lions to generate tourism income, and in return big cats feed on old cattle abandoned by local herders, wrote Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, the former dean of Wildlife Institute of India, in an academic paper published last year. Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for herder
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Noun
  • The album cover shows Ponthier in a red cowboy outfit walking into a dive bar, accompanied by a green-skinned alien version of themselves.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Buck Mason’s Loomstate selvedge cowboy cut jeans have a higher rise than the standard fit, giving you a more Western style.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Probably the one that’s best known is the one about how Philomelus, a young, impoverished farmer and herdsman, struggled to push his plow through his fields.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Buhari’s first term was characterized by war on many fronts, including the Boko Haram insurgency, the secessionist pro-Biafra movement in the east of Nigeria and rampaging Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria.
    Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The second Eclogue—often thought to be autobiographical—offers a famous example in which the shepherd Corydon proclaims his love for the boy Alexis.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On the same day Emerson got her dog, Denise Parker drove to Angel Paws to try to pick up Murphy Brown, her 58-pound Australian shepherd.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Herder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herder. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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