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Recent Examples of foraging
They’re spotted foraging on golf courses and even breeding in suburban wetlands near Chicago.
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Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Ant baits are effective because foraging workers take the food back to the nest and share so that everyone in the colony is exposed.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Schools of fish, murmuration of starlings, or foraging trails of ants all emerge from individual signals compounded into collective behavior.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Cardamom pastries in Finland Renowned for its foraging culture, Finland also has many more culinary dimensions beyond the mushrooms, berries, and herbs that grow wild in the countryside and across vast swaths of its capital, Helsinki.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
Select a site that is accessible for watering during dry spells and protected from drying winds and foraging wildlife.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
For city and county parks, foraging laws vary by jurisdiction.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
Once the fires have swept through, the chimpanzees have their pick of cooked critters on a charred landscape cleared of predators, just like the baboons in the forests of Uganda who have been seen foraging for cooked grasshoppers and shoots after fire passes by.
—Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Lakshitha Karunarathna’s shot of an elephant walking through a waste disposal site in Sri Lanka once again spotlights how foraging in these rubbish tips can be hazardous and even fatal for animals.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Ant baits are effective because foraging workers take the food back to the nest and share so that everyone in the colony is exposed.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Schools of fish, murmuration of starlings, or foraging trails of ants all emerge from individual signals compounded into collective behavior.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Cardamom pastries in Finland Renowned for its foraging culture, Finland also has many more culinary dimensions beyond the mushrooms, berries, and herbs that grow wild in the countryside and across vast swaths of its capital, Helsinki.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
Select a site that is accessible for watering during dry spells and protected from drying winds and foraging wildlife.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
For city and county parks, foraging laws vary by jurisdiction.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
Once the fires have swept through, the chimpanzees have their pick of cooked critters on a charred landscape cleared of predators, just like the baboons in the forests of Uganda who have been seen foraging for cooked grasshoppers and shoots after fire passes by.
—Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Lakshitha Karunarathna’s shot of an elephant walking through a waste disposal site in Sri Lanka once again spotlights how foraging in these rubbish tips can be hazardous and even fatal for animals.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foraging
grazing
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Most workshops can go on citing examples (and from each other’s writing, too, which is fun to do)―any perusal of course reading lists or an hour spent grazing the literature shelves of a bookstore yields numerous possible stories for discussion.—
Douglas Unger
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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Kardashian, 44, wore a head-turning lilac-gray gown designed with a high neckline, floor-grazing cape sleeves and a body-hugging silhouette that cinched her waist.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Foraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foraging. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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