shepherd
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“I eventually just got to the point where I didn’t think he was going to do anything,” said Fowler, who accused Bhakta’s German shepherd of killing his chickens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
“Julie was our shepherd and our protector the whole time we were there,” the singer says of Death Cab’s nearly two-decade run at Atlantic, which began with 2005’s Grammy-nominated “Plans.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The film stars Hugh Jackman as a shepherd who reads mysteries to his flock in an English village.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The first fossils of Bicharracosaurus dionidei were discovered on a farm by shepherd Dionide Mesa.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
A man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus’s father has died It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby....
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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