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Recent Examples of pastoralist
As pastoralist communities moved their flocks, the sheep had more contact with infected wild animals.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastoralist
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His remarks come after reports that priests and pastoral workers have been unable to bring communion to those detained.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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From their London apartment at Kensington Palace to the pastoral charm of Anmer Hall—and now their long-term family base at Forest Lodge—the couple’s portfolio reflects a balance of privacy, tradition, and modern family life.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2025
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In the late 19th century, in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants began arriving in California in search of opportunity, enticed by the promise of employment with mining companies, agricultural producers, and railroads.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Apulia has a mild climate, which creates the perfect environment to grow a great diversity of agricultural crops, and this project contributes to the reintroduction in the region of a long tradition of cotton farming, which dates back to the Middle Ages.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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He was born in the small town of Damongo in Ghana’s bucolic northwest.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Just over an hour away from London by train (the Brits really do have public transportation figured out in ways that had this American practically salivating with jealousy), Soho Farmhouse sits on 100 bucolic acres in the small town of Chipping Upon Norton.—
Rachel DeSantis,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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For the most part, these blueprints have been geared at spurring growth and unity as the nation transformed from a rural, agrarian economy to an urbanized, developed powerhouse.—
Shaoyu Yuan,
The Conversation,
5 Nov. 2025
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The design-forward abode, which makes use of familiar agrarian shapes, is currently configured as a four-bedroom, six-bath home.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
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KPop Demon Hunters is proving that a genre once — rightly or wrongly — deemed too niche to crossover in the Western market can create a monocultural moment.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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Curry’s final-form ascendance a decade ago was the last time random League Pass games became monocultural and parasocial.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
28 Oct. 2025
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Seaweed grows fast, needs no pesticides, requires no arable land, and thrives in marine environments.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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For instance, the Bangladesh delta, one of the most fertile and densely populated areas in the world, is already experiencing problems, including salinity intrusion, rising sea levels and the loss of arable land.—
Pintu Kumar Mahla,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2020
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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