grazing

noun

graz·​ing ˈgrā-ziŋ How to pronounce grazing (audio)
: herbage or land for grazing

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This reframes usage as deliberate practice rather than digital grazing. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Bolsonaro's presidency was marked by intense skepticism about the pandemic and vaccines and his embrace of informal mining and land-clearing for cattle grazing, pushing deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest to record highs. Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 The Interior Department, meantime, has announced plans to repeal a Biden-era policy that elevated conservation as an official use of public lands, on equal footing with mining, grazing, energy extraction and other consumptive activities. John Leos, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025 That type of entertainment grazing can make searching for a game difficult, especially if a collection is unorganized. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grazing

Word History

First Known Use

1517, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grazing was in 1517

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“Grazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grazing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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