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Definition of foragenext
as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs cows foraging in the pasture

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noun

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Recent Examples of forage
Verb
There’s also plenty of food for thought on the menu, which reflects the chef’s interests in Black agricultural history, farmers’ markets and foraging, and stellar and honestly made wine. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026 Ramps Ramps, a type of wild allium, are typically foraged rather than cultivated. Lauren David, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
On the other hand, Tommy never got the chance to climb a tree or forage for nuts. Amy Crawford, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2025 High-end travelers are delighted to visit a goat farm to see how cheese is made, or forage for ingredients in a forest. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forage
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  • The star kept her beauty minimal for the Sunday morning sunbathing, styling her blonde hair down with shaggy face-framing bangs grazing her cheekbones and partially obscuring her eyes.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • During the growing season, the more than 240,000 panels of the Clover Creek Solar Project are kept free of sagebrush by sheep that happily graze between the lines, napping in the shade of the panels during the hottest parts of the day.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The property runs about 1,000 breeding female cows and a few dozen herd bulls, a feed yard facility and individual feed intake facility.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The data that Bell collected on students would later influence what showed up in their Facebook feeds.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The extended hunt for a new CFO underscores the ultracompetitive state of the market for hiring a strategic finance leader who brings extensive audit and accounting expertise as well as credibility with Wall Street.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • After the Slasher speeds off, Jane begins a multistate hunt to bring him to justice while her new foe is on his own path to a destructive endgame.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In Wisconsin, dairy farms are smaller, herds are smaller, and cows are usually sent out to pasture to graze in good weather, which is not easy to come by in Wisconsin.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Another is to acquaint yourself with the courage and good-heartedness of those who are making it now, and who will one day lead us out to pasture.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cousin Who ‘Gardens’ Serviette Sour Diesel, $175 Founder-perfumer Trey Taylor’s heady blend of kush, pink pepper, patchouli and rhubarb evokes the kind of silage that a cannabis enthusiast’s dreams are made of.
    Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Water trucks roll past bunkers stacked with silage.
    Elly Fishman, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Pawtucket hockey arena shooting latest On Wednesday, the Pawtucket Police Department said that searches were conducted along with Maine State Police and the FBI at Dorgan's apartment and work locker in Bath, Maine and also at a storage unit in Brunswick, Maine.
    Matt Schooley, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The site also contains search tools as well as a predictably gigantic source bibliography.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Shop the Better Homes & Gardens collection on Walmart's official website, or use Walmart's store locator to find where these supplies are available in stores near you.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
  • It is endowed with some of the richest mineral supplies on earth, including some 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, as well as huge reserves of copper and a Mendeleevian constellation of other metals.
    Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The ongoing quest for reality’s full, fundamental nature continues.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Feb. 2026
  • With an independent test data set for release, the coming weeks may determine whether Donut Lab’s claims mark a genuine breakthrough or another chapter in the long and difficult quest to commercialize solid-state batteries.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026

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“Forage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forage. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

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