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Recent Examples of pasture
Patrick Whittle and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
McEvoy said major changes included reducing the hazard status of irrigated farmland as well as hay and pasture lands.
—Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 7 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
Advertisement At Calumet Farm in central Kentucky, the thoroughbreds were led to their stalls Sunday afternoon before freezing rain turned their pastures into a slick glaze of snow and ice.
—Patrick Whittle and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
McEvoy said major changes included reducing the hazard status of irrigated farmland as well as hay and pasture lands.
—Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 7 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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Set on a 37,000-acre ranch along the Blackfoot River, the resort features 28 luxury homes and 36 glamping tents done up in modern western style.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The director grew up in northeastern Florida on a working cattle ranch.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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According to police, Tunstall-Jennings’ 29-year-old son was also shot and her 11-year-old granddaughter was grazed by a bullet.—
Alexa Ashwell,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Jan. 2025
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Angus and Herefords graze in fields next to large manor homes on one-acre lots.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
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Shipley had just 82 yards on 30 attempts during the regular season, picking up two first downs in the process.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Metal posts are all that remain of the yard’s fence.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 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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Hang on to your bonnets, y’all—Laura Ingalls Wilder is making her way back to the prairie.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2025
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Located along a longtime migratory path on Lake Michigan, Cook County attracts a wide variety of birds to the lakefront, as well as forest preserves, wetlands and prairies.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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