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Recent Examples of droverThe feature followed an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a cattle range run by a cattle drover (Hugh Jackman).—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024 As the sun sets, the drovers go over their final tasks for the day such as feeding and watering the livestock.—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2024 Historians estimate Black drovers, trainers, breeders, and herders—who were collectively referred to as cowboys—made up as much as a quarter of working ranch hands during the heyday of open-range ranching in the second half of the 19th century.—TIME, 12 Apr. 2024 Lancashire heelers are drovers, meaning they have been used to herd cattle and other livestock.—Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024 The trio experiences four life-altering years, a love affair between Sarah and the drover and the unavoidable impact of World War II on northern Australia.—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023 Led by professional drovers, a herd of 17 longhorns march down East Exchange Avenue daily, and each animal represents a decade of the city’s history.—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 26 June 2023 See a real-life cattle drive Each day at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., visitors line the sidewalks of Exchange Avenue to catch sight of drovers herding Texas Longhorns down the street.—Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023 The drovers are mounted on horseback and dressed in garb similar to what their counterparts wore centuries ago.—Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy.
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Nell Zink,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy.
Since the house is Cheesecake’s domain and the outdoors is Pumpkin’s, the large porch serves as a meeting place, with Stevie the Sheltie, in her instinctual herder’s role, acting as chaperon.
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Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
In one particularly horrifying incident, one family of herders lost over 40 of their stock, a fact that would contribute to the death of one child, which then caused the father to go mad and be sent to prison.
Houston Tye Hinton, resident stockman at the Anchor 7 Cattle Growers Association, is winding down after a long day of branding cattle.
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Pien Huang,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
Just as Darwin cultivated stockmen and pigeon breeders for their familiarity with the mysterious laws of inheritance, biologists interested in rattlesnakes have beaten a path to Martin’s door.
In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
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Hari Kumar,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.
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