herdsman
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On this recent evening, the puppeteer Kennedy Kanagawa was out sick, but his understudy, Cameron Johnson, was an able herdsman for Jack’s pal, Milky White.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
Now at 31, he is the herdsman and co-manages the dairy farm alongside his father.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman grazing cattle in his cornfields this October, he feared for his life.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
However, this same conclusion is reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing the commons.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
A sly nod the raw cloves rubbed on toast by the Catalan herdsmen who stake claim to the dish’s origins.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
New study by ICTA-UAB and the University of Cádiz reveals that the first farmers and herdsmen settled in Andalusia collected and consumed shellfish throughout the year, especially in winter.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Villagers had seen "strange herdsmen" setting up camp near the area in the days before the attacks began.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022
Security experts have told The Associated Press that most of the kidnappers are former Fulani herdsmen who became caught up in Nigeria’s prolonged conflict between farmers and nomadic cattle herders.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
Many of them live on mission stations or government reserves, or else work for whites as herdsmen on cattle stations.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
