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Recent Examples of swineherd
He is befriended by a swineherd, Eumaeus (Claudio Santamaria), who apparently doesn’t recognize him.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
One of the grottoes is known as Eumaeus’ Cave, in honor of the faithful swineherd who tended Odysseus’ pigs and is said (improbably, given the terrain) to have fattened them on acorns there.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The king of Barodia desires to become a swineherd.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
The doctor then replaces the ruler’s missing arm with a swineherd’s.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus.
—Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
One of the grottoes is known as Eumaeus’ Cave, in honor of the faithful swineherd who tended Odysseus’ pigs and is said (improbably, given the terrain) to have fattened them on acorns there.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The king of Barodia desires to become a swineherd.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
The doctor then replaces the ruler’s missing arm with a swineherd’s.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus.
—Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swineherd
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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.Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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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.Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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Growing up south of Dallas-Fort Worth as the descendant of horse-raising cowboys directly impacts how folk, country, soul and rock uniquely intertwine to form his sound.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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Ranch hands Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist share a tent and hard labor like all cowboys do, but their fellowship evolves into something deeper.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
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And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
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Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 May 2024
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McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
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The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
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Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.Chinedu Asadu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
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In 1997, Thimphu told Beijing that Tibetan herdsmen had been intruding into the Jakarlung valley and even constructed sheds there, according to Bhutan’s National Assembly records cited by Barnett.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The region has a rich history of sheep farming going back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Basque sheepherders settled there.Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2024
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Barbershop Trail: Named for a sheepherder who used his skills cutting the hair of his neighbors, the Barbershop Trail is part of the Cabin Loop Trail system on the Rim.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
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One devoted father teaches his son the ways of the gaucho, and is lonely when the kid returns to school.Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2024
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With no more than 10 guests at a time, each can join the farming team for a night of local gaucho guitar music on the Gallie family's 27,000-hectare estate, with its 8,500 merino sheep and 400 Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle.Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Swineherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swineherd. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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