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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
Noun
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Trails range from short 3-mile walks to 40-plus-mile backcountry treks, climbing from 5,000 to 13,000 feet of elevation, with forest paths, stone steps, and thach (alpine pasture) camps.—
Alexandra Gillespie,
Outside,
6 Mar. 2026
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Then, the pastures plateaued into farmland, with only a tractor or lone farmer breaking the flatness of the setting.—
Vic O'Sullivan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Pasturage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasturage. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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