pastoralist
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rock art and faunal records attest to the pastoralist use of the lava tube and surrounding areas, painting a vivid picture of ancient lifeways.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
In southern Ethiopia, repeated droughts have brought pastoralist communities to the brink of destitution.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2024
I remember a pastoralist whose sheep was taken by a leopard.
From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2023
A nomadic, pastoralist people known as the Huns are particularly implicated in usurping this superpower.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2022
But a new kind of society also appeared in some places, based primarily on the exploitation of animals: tribes of pastoralist herders.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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