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 self-described mushroom lover and amateur forager had told the court it was all a tragic accident.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

His career paths are hunter, forager or watchtower guard, but he seems more like the product of a progressive Montessori school, even with his dad urging him to cackle at shredded deer intestines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

“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