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Brown explained it's a disease of "poverty, dispossession and powerlessness", from what was a seminomadic lifestyle, now becoming reliant on processed foods.

From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2023

There, they find a place to celebrate their seminomadic culture without facing discrimination.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Helping facilitate contact in the desert extremes were small settlements of seminomadic peoples at a fragile line of oases forging a point-to-point trading system.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Nowhere, however, was change more dramatic and consequential than among the scattered seminomadic people of the Inner Asian Steppe.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann