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Recent Examples of goatherd
Pagnol returns to Marseille and is greeted by his brother Paul, a goatherd.
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Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
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
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
The indie fantasy comedy about a cursed goatherd (Steinbruner) who turns to a witch (Stronach) for help, is very much in the tradition of films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride and, of course, The NeverEnding Story.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd could love.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
Chapters are organized around journeys, in which Finlay, an Englishwoman, goes as far afield as Leh, in Kashmir, to speak with a pashmina goatherd, and Papua New Guinea, to watch Maisin women paint tapa, a cloth made from bark.
—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
The goatherd has lived a humble existence away from his wife and three now-adult and college-educated daughters for 21 years.
—Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
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
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
The indie fantasy comedy about a cursed goatherd (Steinbruner) who turns to a witch (Stronach) for help, is very much in the tradition of films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride and, of course, The NeverEnding Story.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd could love.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
Chapters are organized around journeys, in which Finlay, an Englishwoman, goes as far afield as Leh, in Kashmir, to speak with a pashmina goatherd, and Papua New Guinea, to watch Maisin women paint tapa, a cloth made from bark.
—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
The goatherd has lived a humble existence away from his wife and three now-adult and college-educated daughters for 21 years.
—Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goatherd
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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
Noun
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Opposites attract in this story of a spoiled pop princess and a cowboy.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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The series will highlight the tense showdowns between lawmen and outlaws, the rise of cowboys and ranchers, the strength of pioneer women and the drive of abolitionists and fortune seekers who helped shape the American frontier.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 May 2025
Noun
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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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After Joe translates for Washington in an interrogation with a sheepherder whose land borders the ravine where Vines’s body was found, Washington finally makes her suspicions plain.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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Whitfield doubles down on his previous orders, instructing the former sheepherder to murder all the Duttons and dump their bodies in the lawless border town.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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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
Noun
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The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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Softly came the sound of a Toda herdsman calling to his buffaloes.—
Cyril E. Holland,
Outdoor Life,
8 May 2025
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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.—
Nell Zink,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Farmers can no longer irrigate their crops, and shepherds can no longer reach their pastures.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 May 2025
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With the exception of the occasional shepherd, those winding roads are now empty for cyclists.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
13 May 2025
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“Goatherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goatherd. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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