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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasturage
pasture
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The area Tipperary’s pasture-rich Golden Vale is on the doorstep and many of the growers and artisanal producers offer tours and tastings.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The issues have also extended to the cattle industry due to poor rangeland and pasture conditions as a result of the dry conditions, Riddey said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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“Pasturage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasturage. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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