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Definition of foragesnext
present tense third-person singular of forage
as in grazes
to feed on grass or herbs cows foraging in the pasture

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noun

plural of forage

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Verb
  • Velasquez likes square layers for hair that grazes just at the collarbone.
    Audrey Noble, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • People taking anticoagulants can also experience serious bleeds from small cuts or grazes, uncontrolled nosebleeds, blood in the urine and, more rarely, brain hemorrhages or bleeding in the lungs.
    David Cox, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The main event will be the egg hunts.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • My rifle hunts for deer and bear have taken me to Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho.
    Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The booking company found that this spring break, flight searches to Hilo are up 60 percent and that airfare is down 26 percent, when compared to last year.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
  • When the Los Angeles school board placed Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on leave last week after federal searches of his home and office, the sudden leadership vacuum at the nation’s second-largest school system raised immediate questions about who would steady the district.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Now after four years of ongoing horrors in Ukraine, and more than two years of watching slaughter and suffering in Gaza, the latest war filling our feeds is just another numbing form of content, a digital arena in which competing forces try to assert conflicting viewpoints.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Little of this would be chronicled on her social media feeds.
    Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Rams scouts who do attend the events in person use interview time to give players a digital personality assessment stored in their database.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Ten Hurricanes traveled to Indianapolis for the NFL combine, looking to impress NFL scouts.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As my personal friend Kathryn has written about this season, Bridgerton is kind of notorious for side quests.
    Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The murders themselves come across as side quests in a video game, complete with cheat codes and drug references.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Disaster relief workers went door to door in the Union City and Three Rivers areas to offer meals and cleanup supplies.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Tommy seems receptive, too, with each invitation to participate in his abductors’ togetherness (meals, movie nights, a picnic).
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Their voices carry a tone of bravado and voyeurism in their pursuits for close proximity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Williams is 45, an age where most former all-world athletes have moved on to other pursuits.
    Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 1 Mar. 2026
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“Forages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forages. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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