as in hunter
a member of a culture in which people hunt animals and look for plants to eat instead of growing crops and raising animals
a tribe of hunter-gatherers
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Recent Examples of hunter-gatherer
The fact that hunter-gatherers built Poverty Point challenges conventional ideas about early civilizations.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Now, scientists say most of the mammoths used to build the site were female, which suggests the Ice Age hunter-gatherers were hunting or scavenging from herds, rather than trapping lone males.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
But the new findings add to the growing picture of how Ice Age hunter-gatherers behaved—and survived—amid challenging weather conditions and frigid temperatures.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Now, scientists say most of the mammoths used to build the site were female, which suggests the Ice Age hunter-gatherers were hunting or scavenging from herds, rather than trapping lone males.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
But the new findings add to the growing picture of how Ice Age hunter-gatherers behaved—and survived—amid challenging weather conditions and frigid temperatures.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for hunter-gatherer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherer
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Research on nearly 500,000 Wikipedia users reveals three rabbit hole types: hunters, busybodies and dancers.—
Ann Kowal Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Groton is 80 miles east of Norwalk. March 6, Plymouth, Mass. Unnamed, no information on gender or age Human remains were found by a hunter in a wooded area in Plymouth, Mass., about 108 miles east of Groton and 178 miles east from Norwalk.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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