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Recent Examples of pastoralist
In the northern reaches, thousands of pastoralist herders have switched to fishing after losing their livestock to drought since 2021.
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Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
The resemblance is particularly striking because many Palestinians are now barred from practicing their pastoralist traditions in areas where settlers continue to roam freely.
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Irus Braverman,
The Conversation,
27 Apr. 2026
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.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Aug. 2025
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
The resemblance is particularly striking because many Palestinians are now barred from practicing their pastoralist traditions in areas where settlers continue to roam freely.
—
Irus Braverman,
The Conversation,
27 Apr. 2026
The pastoralist Maasai people, for instance, who also live in the region, have successfully been vying for supremacy with lions for hundreds of years.
—
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
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Rodeos in rural Australia are more modest affairs, with distinct cultural origins rooted in pastoral stations and country towns.
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Melinda Moore, a psychology professor at Eastern Kentucky University, noted that most clergy and faith leaders receive little or no training in pastoral care for those who are suicidal or suicide-bereaved.
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These plant shipments were expected at more than 85 Costco locations in 25 counties throughout the state, according to an email shared between county agricultural offices obtained by The Bee and the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
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Geopolitical shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic or overseas wars can choke supply chains, create more demand for the limited supply and cause prices to spike, said UC Davis agricultural economist Dan Sumner.
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Everything about this verdant, bucolic space is antithetical to the fog, fire, and wide-open, sprawling moors that have so far dominated the movie.
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But the bucolic setting quickly won him over.
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Restaurant Pearl Morissette—a 42-acre biodynamic farm with an agrarian-centric tasting menu—was just awarded its second Michelin Star, and sits at North America’s third best restaurant.
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This usually centers on the likes of Jefferson and his local, agrarian ideal; James Madison and his counterbalancing factions; Alexander Hamilton and his distrust of the common people.
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Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.
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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.
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Work on the 2025 vintage includes the use of Bouquet, a disease-resistant variety, a choice that is, allegedly, both agronomic and commercial.
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An agronomic guide or a turf guide will provide the optimal mower height for your specific type of grass.
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It is ideally suited for these types of produce, in areas where there are constraints on arable land and water.
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The hum of the highway reached us across an arable field.
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Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular.
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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.
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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