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Recent Examples of pasture
Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Mar. 2025
Rob Dunning at Raspberry Ridge Creamery near Allentown had similar plans for the pastures his sheep use, as well as a grant that allowed a local food bank to purchase his farm's sheep's milk cheese and yogurt.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
R Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2024
This is when the wranglers round up the thundering herd of horses to bring them into the ranch for trail rides during the day and take them back out to pasture in the evening.
—Gwen Pratesi, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
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Noun
For example, in the Pyrenees, fire has been used to create and maintain the high-altitude pastures known as estives for seven thousand years.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Mar. 2025
Rob Dunning at Raspberry Ridge Creamery near Allentown had similar plans for the pastures his sheep use, as well as a grant that allowed a local food bank to purchase his farm's sheep's milk cheese and yogurt.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
Lastly, any boss who would rather put older employees out to pasture than benefit from their experience, is going to have a rude awakening in a few years.
—R Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2024
This is when the wranglers round up the thundering herd of horses to bring them into the ranch for trail rides during the day and take them back out to pasture in the evening.
—Gwen Pratesi, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasture
Noun
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Huston was forced to evacuate her ranch in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the event.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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One family ranch will continue an agricultural legacy begun in 1970 even as subdivisions replace farmland throughout Northwest Arkansas.—
Annette Beard,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Once complete, my fingertips grazed my cold, naked scalp.—
Christina Fang,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Apr. 2025
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While lying on a beach in Mexico with the painter Ed Ruscha, she was grazed by a stray bullet on the thigh.—
Nathan Taylor Pemberton,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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In his senior season, Bech dominated, catching 62 passes for 1,034 yards and nine touchdowns.—
Steve Bradshaw,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
9 Feb. 2020
Noun
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From the prairie of Abilene, Texas, Crusoe plans to launch a hyperscale data center campus with 206 megawatts of capacity that’s expected to scale to 1.2 gigawatts by mid-2026.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2025
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These and other prairie plants provide an ideal habitat for hundreds of pollinators and insect species including bunchgrass skippers and dreamy dusky wing butterflies.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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