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

There was an especially cute lamb made by Abbi, a forager who, like Dan, brought her own ingredients to the challenge, and a very sleek cartoon-style Highland cow by baker Josh.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2023

Without Jhe to break it down, more juvenile hormone was reaching the brains of these ants, and “soldier behavior was reprogrammed to forager behavior,” Ju says.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2023

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