pastoralist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastoralist
Adjective
  • In a work as captivated with pastoral landscapes as the haunting glow of a tube TV, Vermette extracts possibility from every shot, down to crossfading that recalls the expressiveness of silent cinema.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This walking safari follows ancient game trails and pastoral routes, still used by local communities, leading to remote areas otherwise unreachable by road.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump had previously reversed an effort to afford legal protection to agricultural workers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Problems With An Export Tax Developing countries often impose export taxes on low-value goods, such as agricultural products.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That's true even in bucolic settings like Taylor County, where small farms blend with the forest and wetlands.
    Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This remote, bucolic region—scattered with tiny villages and set to a soundtrack of tinkling bells of Montbéliarde cows—is the antithesis of Disneyfied wine country.
    Eleanor Aldridge, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Freedom Colonies were primarily rural and agrarian, centering around land ownership, farming, and cooperative living.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The sociologist Donald Kraybill, a leading scholar of Amish life, has extensively chronicled the problem faced by an agrarian culture raising huge families in a country furiously converting its farmland into suburbs.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists predict that there may not be enough arable land available or ocean capacity to support the level of carbon sequestration required to meet climate goals, requiring a turn towards geologic storage.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 July 2025
  • At both spatial scales, forested landscapes had the highest share of deciduous forests and the greatest connectivity of forest patches, hedgerows, and large groups of trees, whereas non-forested landscapes had a relatively large proportion of arable lands and the greatest vineyard-forest distances.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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