forager
Example Sentences
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On an off-day hike, Newton and a forager friend had to spring into action when a restaurant called with an order for five pounds of ramps to be delivered the next day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“A novice forager should only eat wild mushrooms after they’ve been taught to identify them by an expert in their region,” Diaz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
“Once you’ve bit down on a fresh muscadine, juice and pulp bursting onto your tongue, table grapes will seem flavorless,” says Betsy Harris, a forager living in northern Florida.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
A forager has found a mushroom so rare that she will not share its location for fear of it being damaged.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2023
Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
