gatherer

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In Indonesia, the growing exploitation of nickel to meet surging demand for electric vehicle batteries is endangering the nomadic hunter gatherer people of the Hongana Manyawa community, the report said.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

That sort of growth helped transform Blackstone from depending on striking deals for the majority of its fees to becoming an asset gatherer that can charge management fees on funds it oversees.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Before the domestication of plants and animals, life in prehistoric Africa was characterized by the hunter- gatherer stage of human civilization.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“So, we’re just basically trying to get everybody to vote on this so that the power is in the voters’ hands,” the signature gatherer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

People in Paleolithic societies had led the unsettled life of the hunter and food gatherer, reaping where nature sowed and thus at the mercy of forces that they could neither understand nor control.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson