pastoralist

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Recent Examples of pastoralist 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
Adjective
  • Cogan is joined by dreamily pastoral artist Angelica Rockne (with shades of Weyes Blood running thick) at Stardust Station on May 16.
    Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • In a statement posted Wednesday, Bishop Michael Barber said 12 parish sites would be closing, along with a pastoral center.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The demonstration also touched on various issues that Americans have been facing including the rising cost of food and gas due in part to tariffs, the war in Iran and immigration sweeps that experts have said contributed to a shortage of agricultural workers.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • Ken Foster, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, said there is typically a 3- to 6-month lag between an energy price shock and an increase in retail food prices.
    Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • In this bucolic setting, days slip by discreetly engineered by the smart, young staff.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The rush to secure sites near key transmission lines for battery energy storage systems, or BESS, has led developers to places like Acton, California, a bucolic Los Angeles County town of horse ranches and animal sanctuaries.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • If Bruce Springsteen’s greatest gift was mythologizing the existential open graves swallowing up blue-collar workers, Mellencamp’s was his piercing ability to at once celebrate and dismantle agrarian fantasy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This includes some of the most fertile agrarian regions in the south of the country, which is a key supplier of grain to the world.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.
    J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Once commercial and agronomic datasets are harmonized, AI models can analyze how incentives propagate through the system and quantify their real impact on demand.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 4 May. 2026.

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