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herdsmen

noun

plural of herdsman

as in herders

a tender of livestock a lone herdsman stood with his sheep and his dog on the hillside

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Recent Examples of herdsmen The military has also been stretched by efforts to combat armed gangs carrying out mass kidnappings for ransom, and fighting between semi-nomadic herdsmen and settled farmers in states across the center of the country. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026 The alphorn is a long wooden instrument traditionally used by herdsmen in the Alps. — Jez Fielder, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Continue reading … FAITH UNDER SIEGE – Christians targeted in systematic kidnapping campaign in Nigeria by jihadi herdsmen. — FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026 The Bible recounts how openness to God restored harmony during a conflict over land between the herdsmen of Abram, later named Abraham, and those of his nephew Lot. — Alistair Budd, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2025 Even as the country became Buddhist in the 16th century, the herdsmen found solace in its reassuring rituals and its promise of contact with the spirit world. — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024

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In southern India, for example, villagers are allowing – and even paying – herders to use their land in exchange for dung, the natural fertilizer that farmers need to produce higher-value organic crops.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026
Authorities have said the bandit groups include mostly former herders who took up arms against farming communities, after clashes between them over increasingly strained resources.

— Dyepkazah Shibayan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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The first co-write between Henley and Frey was a bona fide cowboy ballad if cowboys kept grand pianos around campfires.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026
Immediately after the Civil War, Smith said, cowboys drove millions of longhorns from southern Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipment to northern markets.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026

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