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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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The works often portray white cowboys on horseback in conflict with Indigenous people.Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Tim Blake Nelson sets the stage beautifully with his opening bit about a singing cowboy, but there are a number of scene-stealers here including Harry Melling, Tom Waits, and Bill Heck.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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German shepherds and huskies might even enjoy being outdoors in the cold weather, and may not be the answer for these dogs.Alice Gibbs, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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After that point, Bring Them Down is off to the races, revealing itself as a gripping, bloody turf war-slash-Western, played out between Abbott’s shepherd and his duplicitous young neighbor.Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
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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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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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