as in pasture
open land over which livestock may roam and feed put the cows out on the back pasturage

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Recent Examples of pasturage Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage. Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage. Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage. NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020 Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable. Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
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pasture
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  • An original barn from 1908 is accompanied by a more modern 5,000-square-foot steel barn, along with pastures and a riding arena.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 June 2025
  • Through the porthole, Junior watches the apple trees drop away into seamless white horse pasture, the top rung of the fence riding above the snow alongside the road, bobbing and snaking with an unevenness accentuated by the flatness of the snow, his father talking still.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025

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“Pasturage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasturage. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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