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Recent Examples of pasture
Noun
During summer, all over the alpine regions cattle herds feed on alpine pastures (Almen in Austria or Germany, Alpen in Switzerland) high up in the mountains.—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025 An original barn from 1908 is accompanied by a more modern 5,000-square-foot steel barn, along with pastures and a riding arena.—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 June 2025
Verb
Jimmi Simpson, in a rare recurring Western role, plays Solomon’s boss, Tom Simpson, a disgraced banker put out to pasture at the Tokyo branch.—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024 Things have come so far that last year, BMO dropped its last name — Harris — ending a 141-year run for a quintessentially Chicago banking brand, and likely putting its venerable cartoon mascot, Hubert the Harris Lion, out to pasture for good.—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pasture
After Welles died in 1985, the director’s daughter decided to inter his ashes in a dry well on the Ordóñez family ranch in Ronda.
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Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
The working ranch is now being run by the seventh generation, managing the property’s agriculture, timber and livestock operations along with the hunting.
This practice involves growing crops or other vegetation, such as pollinator-friendly plants, under solar panels, and sometimes grazing livestock in this greenery.
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Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
The President, speaking about border crossing numbers at the time, was just six minutes into his address when a bullet grazed his right ear.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
10 July 2025
Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.
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Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.
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