foraged (for)

past tense of forage (for)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for foraged (for)
Verb
  • While Alexander-Arnold’s signing had been pursued by the club since last year, Alonso’s conviction and insistence were key in landing Huijsen, Carreras and Mastantuono.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While traveling with a driver and bodyguard, their car, pursued by paparazzi, crashed into a support column, flipped and landed in front of oncoming traffic.
    Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But much like Howard Jarvis feared, the tax-and-spend interests have sought to destroy Proposition 13 ever since, most recently by persuading courts to carve loopholes in its constitutional protections and invent new ways for government agencies to raise revenue.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
  • European hunters, many of them colonial officers, sought the Barbary lion as a trophy.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While there are some exceptions, most schools who have left their historic homes to join a shiny new neighborhood like the SEC, Big Ten and ACC have looked up years later to find their wallets fat but their trophy case bare.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Now Ronny looked up at her expectantly.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Foraged (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foraged%20%28for%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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