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Recent Examples of sheepherder
Remains found on a Colorado trailhead by a sheepherder have been identified as a missing woman, deputies say.
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Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
Inspired by the great ski resorts in Switzerland, Austria, and other parts of Europe, Union Pacific Railroad company built the world’s first ski chairlift there in the 1930s as a way to transform the area from a sleepy valley of sheepherders into America’s inaugural ski resort destination.
—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
The 35-year-old worked as a sheepherder on a grazing allotment in the San Juan National Forest near Durango, a small city in the southwest part of the state, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 July 2023
That didn’t deter some sheepherders who ferried their flocks over to graze several years later.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
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Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
Inspired by the great ski resorts in Switzerland, Austria, and other parts of Europe, Union Pacific Railroad company built the world’s first ski chairlift there in the 1930s as a way to transform the area from a sleepy valley of sheepherders into America’s inaugural ski resort destination.
—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
The 35-year-old worked as a sheepherder on a grazing allotment in the San Juan National Forest near Durango, a small city in the southwest part of the state, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 July 2023
That didn’t deter some sheepherders who ferried their flocks over to graze several years later.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheepherder
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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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Dillahunt will play modern cowboy William Macon, a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Kate’s emerging cowboy tendencies, Trowbridge’s ruthlessness and immaturity, Eidra’s laser focus on intelligence gathering and analysis, Dennison’s rectitude, Roylin’s geopolitics-whisperer shtick — all are heightened and more immediately consequential than before.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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Another grail watch that Wind helped shepherd to a client was an exceptional Paul Newman Rolex Daytona Panda reference 2623 with a full set and a tropical dial that was sold by a small Swedish auction house just under a decade ago.Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 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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On a recent morning, one cowhand lounged in dusty jeans.Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
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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 French- and Corsican-language drama centers on Joseph, one of the last goatherds on the Corsican coastline, who receives a visit from the Mafia.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.Ursula Schmied, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
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Younger kids can choose from a selection of small plates portioned for cowpokes.Outside Online, Outside Online, 17 July 2024
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His fictional protagonists have included ornery cowpokes and professors of esoterica.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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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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“Sheepherder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheepherder. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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