pastoralist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastoralist
Adjective
  • The story of baseball is fundamentally nostalgic, connecting us to childhood and to the country’s pastoral beginnings.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Back in England, the Cotswolds offer a slicker version of pastoral escape.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • More Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images What To Know Labor shortages come amid estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that nearly half of the nation's agricultural workforce is in the country without legal status.
    Billal Rahman Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Regional governments in northwestern Liguria and southern Sicily in Italy put restrictions on outdoor work, such as construction and agricultural labor, during the peak heat hours.
    Suzan Fraser, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • How Designers Are Decorating with Lucite Now Consider how designer Brittany Bromley tucked an acrylic table in a bay window, in a fanciful parlor surrounded by bucolic wallpaper and blue and white china.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2025
  • Photo : Modern Media for Sotheby’s International Realty Flowering gardens and bucolic landscaping is spread across 11 acres.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Policy Infrastructure The Code of Hammurabi, written around 1750 BCE, introduced laws to manage the complexity of agrarian society: contracts, labor terms, ownership rules.
    Solange Charas, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society, Tolstoy believed that the task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • News accounts of fires, floods, erupting volcanoes, plagues, the loss of arable land, and mass extinctions evoke a planet in collapse.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • The 190-acre spread in the Santa Ynez Valley near Santa Barbara includes a hacienda-style main house, guest and staff quarters, horse breeding and training facilities, and about 75 acres of arable farmland.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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