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a member of a culture in which people hunt animals and look for plants to eat instead of growing crops and raising animals
a tribe of hunter-gatherers
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Recent Examples of hunter-gatherer
The circumstances of the man’s traumatic injury are unknown, but this case may be the earliest evidence of conflict between hunter-gatherers in mainland Southeast Asia, according to the study.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
After the last ice age, huge ice sheets melted and global sea levels rose, submerging Stone Age settlements and forcing the hunter-gatherer human population inland.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
This program highlights a global study comparing the gut microbiomes of diverse populations, including Tsimane horticulturalists in Bolivia and Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, with those in industrialized societies.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
After the last ice age, huge ice sheets melted and global sea levels rose, submerging Stone Age settlements and forcing the hunter-gatherer human population inland.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
This program highlights a global study comparing the gut microbiomes of diverse populations, including Tsimane horticulturalists in Bolivia and Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, with those in industrialized societies.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherer
Noun
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Mountain lions are hunters, carnivores, apex predators.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Some hunters sell their kills for thirty crowns a head.—
Rebecca van Laer
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Wright called 911 for help, which included a trapper that captured the gator.—
Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Typically, the life of a mountain man or trapper was a hard and isolated lifestyle.—
Aly Walansky,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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