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 technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness.
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Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
The fact that hunter-gatherers built Poverty Point challenges conventional ideas about early civilizations.
—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
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Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
The fact that hunter-gatherers built Poverty Point challenges conventional ideas about early civilizations.
—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
See All Example Sentences for hunter-gatherer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherer
hunter
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Wolves are vicious and intelligent group hunters, but dogs and thunderstorms famously do not mix.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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On May 8, a hunter discovered human remains on Cedar Mountain, and after alerting authorities about the finding, law enforcement responded to the area and retrieved them, the Kane County Sheriff's Office reported this week.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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