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Recent Examples of pastoralist
The pastoralist Maasai people, for instance, who also live in the region, have successfully been vying for supremacy with lions for hundreds of years.
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Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
As pastoralist communities moved their flocks, the sheep had more contact with infected wild animals.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
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
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Women-only programs include administrative assistant, missionary wife, and general studies in the department of Bible, while the men-only alternatives are missions, youth ministry, and pastoral theology.—
Olivia Empson,
Vanity Fair,
27 Mar. 2026
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The grounds lean into a romantic, almost pastoral mood, with wildflower gardens, a freeform heated pool, and both a guest cottage and a finished pool house.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Burlap & Barrel’s best-selling spices are grown only by smallholder farmers in other countries, under specific climate conditions unique to that place and using traditional agricultural methods not widely employed stateside.—
Ori Zohar,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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From large commercial operations to small-scale organic plots, farmers across Illinois and the country are trying to weather the sharp spike in agricultural costs driven by a conflict thousands of miles from their fields.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Monteverdi is a place that invites you to embrace the slow rhythms of Tuscany, surrounded by nature in the UNESCO protected setting of the bucolic Val d’Orcia.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Mar. 2026
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Which is the next big step in putting this bucolic area on the map – as one of the largest data center campuses in the world.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Among agrarian humans, endosperm left its mark on our genomes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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By probing deeper into outer-borough New York and its agrarian history, White complicates our traditional understanding of slavery as rural and southern, showing how memories of that peculiar institution shape contemporary urban life as well.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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In the runup to the 2025 Super Bowl, Fox had sold out its ads by August, a sign that advertisers were willing to pay a steep price for one of the last remaining monocultural events in America.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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That is another area in which dreams smack into the reality of Cuban state, which owns 80% of all arable land.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated March 24,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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Declining rainfall, rising temperatures, and storms that kick up dense dust clouds have rendered vast swaths of once-arable land unusable.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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 1 Apr. 2026.
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