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Recent Examples of pasture
Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
Occasionally, an authentic connection blooms amidst the rolling green pastures and stately homes.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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
Of that, 88% was cleared for pasture, mostly for cattle grazing, while 1% was for development.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
Occasionally, an authentic connection blooms amidst the rolling green pastures and stately homes.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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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During a collapse, ranch members would come here to survey for threats.Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Many encouraged us to give him a fry or to at least dip the celery in ranch.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Anthony Berry, 20, was grazed by a bullet along his upper scalp – an injury that could’ve been more serious if it had been located a centimeter lower, Orlando Health trauma surgeon Joseph Ibrahim said at a Friday news conference.Dalia Faheid, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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Kong-rey is forecast to graze China along the coast of Fujian province on Friday morning.Reuters, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Purdy passed for 353 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Lamar Jackson is 10 of 14 for 71 yards and a score.NBC News, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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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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At this National Natural Landmark and a National Historic District, visitors will encounter a wide range of ecosystems including a deciduous forest, an oak savanna, a prairie and wetlands.Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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Currently, there’s not a ton of great data about duck recruitment or survival rates on the prairie (biologists are working on it, and have theories about everything from habitat to predators like ravens).Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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