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Recent Examples of pasture
Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
The open fields doctrine has long aggravated farmers and ranchers, who are unable to keep law enforcement from snooping on their livestock, crops and pasture.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Gwen Pratesi, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
The group raised ducks and chickens and pastured their 150 sheep on the same hills the Palestinian shepherds had roamed before the war.
—Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
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Noun
Read Next National One-eyed horse escapes pasture and falls through frozen CO pond.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
The open fields doctrine has long aggravated farmers and ranchers, who are unable to keep law enforcement from snooping on their livestock, crops and pasture.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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
The group raised ducks and chickens and pastured their 150 sheep on the same hills the Palestinian shepherds had roamed before the war.
—Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasture
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Stanko invited Vail and dozens of pro-wolf advocates and researchers to her ranch for a summit.—
Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
31 Jan. 2025
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Alas, the four of them had no means to travel out of harm’s way — until Bode, Jake, Eve and her father galloped up on a quartet of horses, to carry them back to the ranch.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 Jan. 2025
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But the men survived, one suffering a shot to the shoulder and the other grazed by a bullet.—
Kate Payne,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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One person was shot in the left shoulder; the other grazed in their forearm.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2025
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Image There was something both sinister and sweet about the actress’s Chanel couture look of floral-print bustier dress shrouded in yards and yards of black tulle.—
The Styles Desk,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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His record for career receiving yards at Tulsa was only surpassed in 2022 by Keylon Stokes.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 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
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Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable.—
johnforristerross,
Longreads,
2 July 2018
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Today, its exhibits feature live animals, taxidermy specimens, recreations of the region’s former prairies and woodlands, and educational materials about sustaining the natural environment.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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The site is surrounded by the remnants of a tall grass prairie that once covered millions of acres of Minnesota and the West.—
John Diers,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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