pastoralist

adjective

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as in pastoral

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  1. pastoral
  2. agricultural
  3. bucolic
  4. agrarian
  5. arable
Adjective
  • Collaborative projects between the imaging company Planet Labs and the International Organization for Migration are helping identify agricultural and pastoral communities most likely to be displaced by climate change.
    Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The president’s interviews with Bill Moyers and Barbara Walters refracted a 1970s introspection through the pastoral voice of a longtime Sunday school teacher.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of pastoral
Adjective
  • The world’s largest agricultural importer also bought a record amount of soybeans last year, after buyers concerned about US-China trade tensions rushed to secure US soybeans ahead of incoming US president Donald Trump’s inauguration.
    Reuters, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Trump is correct about California’s moronic policy that wastes vast amounts of water and starves its agricultural areas for no good reason.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of agricultural
Adjective
  • Echoing its 12th century roots, San Pietro offers an opportunity for quiet reflections and spa services in a bucolic setting.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Every one of the 40 rooms and suites overlooks the bucolic grounds, some with grassy terraces.
    Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of bucolic
Adjective
  • The sleek, contemporary design harmonizes effortlessly with natural materials and warm details, a nod to the region’s agrarian roots.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In the nineteenth century, a schism between the industrial North and the agrarian, slaveholding South culminated in the Civil War.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of agrarian
Adjective
  • Across Africa, aridity has led to a 12% plunge in GDP, partly driven by degradation of arable land.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • One study predicted that replacing arable land with Miscanthus × giganteus plantations could sequester between two and three metric tons of carbon per hectare every year in the plants’ underground roots.
    Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of arable
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