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Recent Examples of swineherd
He is befriended by a swineherd, Eumaeus (Claudio Santamaria), who apparently doesn’t recognize him.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
One of the grottoes is known as Eumaeus’ Cave, in honor of the faithful swineherd who tended Odysseus’ pigs and is said (improbably, given the terrain) to have fattened them on acorns there.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The king of Barodia desires to become a swineherd.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
The doctor then replaces the ruler’s missing arm with a swineherd’s.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus.
—Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
One of the grottoes is known as Eumaeus’ Cave, in honor of the faithful swineherd who tended Odysseus’ pigs and is said (improbably, given the terrain) to have fattened them on acorns there.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The king of Barodia desires to become a swineherd.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
The doctor then replaces the ruler’s missing arm with a swineherd’s.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus.
—Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swineherd
Noun
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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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Instead, stabilizers are cowboys tasked with wrangling a very specific herd: water.—
Ali Bouzari,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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How many movie cowboys would admit that? ‘Shirkers’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 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
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
Noun
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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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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
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Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.—
Chinedu Asadu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2024
Noun
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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
Noun
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With its European architecture, rich textile history and cultural touchstones like the gaucho, there is plenty of inspiration for designers to pull from.—
Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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This is a look from my 2002 graduation collection (above center), which was inspired by traditional gaucho clothing (above left).—
Emilia Petrarca,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Swineherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swineherd. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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