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Recent Examples of pasturageMeanwhile, 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasturage
pasture
Noun
High prices have contributed to homelessness and the growing trend of Californians leaving for cheaper, not greener, pastures in neighboring states, according to recent PPIC analysis.
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Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
Taking his cows to pasture, Mr. Parray walks down the narrow road that leads to India’s last checkpoint – barely 500 yards away.
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Fahad Shah,
Christian Science Monitor,
5 May 2025
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