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Recent Examples of husbandry The five others involved are described in the documents as residents of Montana, Texas and Minnesota who were involved in alternative livestock husbandry and commercial livestock sales, according to court documents. Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024 Require sustainable farming methods, regenerative soil husbandry and local production of produce. The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024 Europeans introduced horses and large attack dogs to the Americas, as well as cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens that were cultivated in large-scale livestock husbandry, which dispossessed the indigenous of their lands. Marcy Norton, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 The Reichardt family has devoted the last 30 years to perfecting a line of ducks famed for succulent pink meat and well suited to the slower, less stressful husbandry of a small Petaluma farm. Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for husbandry
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Noun
  • Other factors that can cause prices to go up or down include player performance, market trends, and health of the wider economy.
    Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • While McDonald's and others are feeling the weight of the struggling U.S. economy, some other fast food chains are not, including Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • In Maryland, 26 Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities programs were operating, dealing with 50 commodities and 88 farming practices, according to the USDA.
    Karl Blankenship, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In just a few decades, France’s farming population wentfrom 7 million in 1946 to fewer than 3 million in 1974.
    Made by History, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This shift is part of a larger trend toward portfolio diversification and hands-on control over retirement savings.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Research shows Los Angeles is in desperate need of large, mature trees, which provide more shade, better storm water management and energy savings.
    Vanessa Romo, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The plant had last been spotted decades earlier, growing by a highway in the town of Corrigin in Western Australia’s wheat belt, where most land has been cleared for agriculture.
    Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • Cristina LaRue covers agriculture for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • But while the fine dining scene is flourishing, the everyday staples still tell a story of hardship, frugality, and a desire to waste nothing.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, people could do worse than to embrace some prudence and frugality.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Conclusion The cannabis industry is undergoing a green revolution, with a growing emphasis on sustainability and organic cultivation.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • This timeline indicates that grape cultivation in Italy likely started during the Late Bronze Age.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This means hitting up antique malls, vintage shops, secondhand retailers, and thrift stores.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Architectural Digest, 2 May 2025
  • Retailers across the resale market, including thrift stores, non-profits, like Goodwill, and online secondhand retailers, are ready to take advantage of the increasingly chaotic market created by tariffs.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Husbandry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/husbandry. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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