forager

Example Sentences

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On an off-day hike, Newton and a forager friend had to spring into action when a restaurant called with an order for five pounds of ramps to be delivered the next day.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The musician is a keen forager with "an interest in mushrooms", and said she knew how to identify it and not mistake it for something poisonous.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

The space was redolent of chanterelles, a bowlful of which she’d just received from a forager friend in exchange for a burger.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

“It’s probably a lot more ubiquitous than we understood,” says co-author Bruce Winterhalder, a behavioral ecologist at UC Davis and pioneering scholar of forager theory.

From Science Magazine • May 12, 2024

In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari