forage 1 of 2

as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs cows foraging in the pasture

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noun

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Recent Examples of forage
Verb
Where to forage for morels Most hunters keep their favorite foraging spots a secret, according to the Missouri Department on Conservation. Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025 If your garden consists entirely of fruit trees, however, then chickens could roam free and forage for the larvae of those bothersome fig beetles, which have become an increasingly annoying pest in recent years. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
The property’s food and beverage team forage for many of their ingredients. Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 More stubby forage fish, some native, others not. Charlie Cordero, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forage
Verb
  • Their length, which usually grazes the ankle area, evokes the stylings of chic women from decades gone by and a sartorial sense of nostalgia, the close fit and flash of an ankle, together, a moment of sensuality.
    Paulina Berges, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The teen, who gave only her first name, Nana, said her friend was grazed by a bullet and left in an ambulance.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From the coaches’ offices, where there’s a live camera feed from the floor, Mulkey and Starkey watched as the team ran a perfect walkthrough.
    Chantel Jennings, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Additionally, this manipulation occurs in product review feeds, on Discord, Instagram, and many other communication channels.
    Hod Fleishman, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The egg hunt continues, and the town (and the friends) gets its annual fresh start.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Attendees are asked to bring a basket and meet in the school lunchroom (door K) before the hunt.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Grab a brush and head out to pasture to meet cows like the affable Ellie, a 5-year-old Highland who loves the limelight, and Bonnie, the independent matriarch.
    Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Some wondered if this was simply Google's way of putting the decade-old device out to pasture.
    Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The lighter roughage and silage flies farther than the grain does, leaving the cow with a pile of the tastier stuff as the rest gets tossed out of reach.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Electricity cables buzz overhead and the smell of silage from a nearby equestrian centre wafts through the air.
    Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Strasburg said further developments about the search would be posted on X. USA TODAY reached out to the Coast Guard on Monday for an update.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The search was focused 30 miles off St. Lucie Inlet, which is about a 115-mile drive north from Miami.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer whose novels spoke of the human quest for freedom and won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, was once a frequent visitor to Lima’s Café Haiti in the upscale Miraflores neighborhood.
    Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Maxine Peake anchors the entire episode on a physical and emotional level, bringing an equal amount of resolve and terror to her character’s quest to evade a murderous robotic guard dog.
    Steve Greene, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And Episode 1 gave us plenty of fodder for discussion.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The death of George Floyd and issues around race were also very fodder for this series too.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Forage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forage. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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