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pastoral

[pas-ter-uhl, pah-ster-] / ˈpæs tər əl, ˈpɑ stər- /


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These relationships point to extensive contact and exchange among prehistoric farming and pastoral communities across a wide geographic area.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

And then there’s the biggest pothole of all on the road to pastoral wonder:

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

Its baroque, acoustic sounds of a pastoral countryside in ye olde England mesh disturbingly well with softly sung, darkly opaque lyrics.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2026

As the smooth highway north of Seville stretched into the vastness of pastoral Extremadura, the chances of finding a lynx, which remains rarer than the snow leopard or the Bengal tiger, felt impossibly small.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

A second, and then a third, pastoral was read from the pulpits.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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