pastoralist

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Recent Examples of pastoralist As pastoralist communities moved their flocks, the sheep had more contact with infected wild animals. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastoralist
Adjective
  • Could Trump’s pastoral critics ultimately face the same frivolous yet burdensome investigations that now plague his political critics?
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The pigs, which can weigh hundreds of pounds, trample fields and eat crops, doing billions of dollars in agricultural damage every year.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s land prices are also an indicator of what happened several years ago, said Bryon Parman, an associate professor and agricultural finance specialist at NDSU.
    April Baumgarten, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The sound of water tumbling over an 18th-century mill wheel only adds to the bucolic allure of a 2,000-plus-acre horse farm in New York‘s scenic Hudson Valley that just hit the market for an eye-popping $90 million.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to its prime, bucolic location in the Green Mountains, Putney is perhaps best known for its schools, including Landmark College and the boarding schools, Putney School and Greenwood School.
    Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Beneath the surface of this agrarian life, traditional gender roles exert a powerful force.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Worries over Trump-era cuts IndyStar traveled south to Daviess County, an agrarian community that voted for Trump by one of the largest margins in the state, for the second leg of our reporting tour last week.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The grim irony of Sudan’s predicament is that Africa’s third-largest country boasts significant mineral reserves, including huge quantities of gold, as well as vast swathes of arable land.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • According to Keel Labs, its Kelsun fiber is made from seaweed biopolymers and requires no freshwater or arable land while remaining non-toxic and biodegradable.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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 24 Oct. 2025.

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