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Recent Examples of pasture
Lauren David, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Upon the 2-year-old Paso Fino horse’s rescue, he was taken to a wide-open pasture and stable, where Thunder was relocated to rehabilitate him back to health.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 7 June 2025
Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
Lamb’s duty to his country is to oversee a group of outcast UK secret service operatives sent out to pasture at a rickety outpost known as Slough House.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 July 2024
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Noun
Clover is a perennial that grows in cooler weather and easily grows in pastures, meadows, near the roadside, and in the lawn.
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Upon the 2-year-old Paso Fino horse’s rescue, he was taken to a wide-open pasture and stable, where Thunder was relocated to rehabilitate him back to health.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
Things have come so far that last year, BMO dropped its last name — Harris — ending a 141-year run for a quintessentially Chicago banking brand, and likely putting its venerable cartoon mascot, Hubert the Harris Lion, out to pasture for good.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
Lamb’s duty to his country is to oversee a group of outcast UK secret service operatives sent out to pasture at a rickety outpost known as Slough House.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasture
Noun
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The road passes vast farm fields, undulating grasslands dotted with towering wind turbines and sprawling cattle ranches before entering Amarillo, the Panhandle’s largest city.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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The area includes horse ranches and lies just south of the riverbed of the San Diego River.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
Verb
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Derik Queen, holding a basketball firmly between his fingertips, squared up the Hall of Famer in front of him, a legend from West Baltimore and unofficial king of New York who is considered one of the 75 best basketball players to graze this earth.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
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None of the shots hit the targets, but one grazed a bystander.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
20 June 2025
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The young tight end caught just 19 passes for 174 yards and two touchdowns.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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With the prairie getting plowed under and replaced almost completely by farmland, the prairie chicken lost its habitat, and is nearly extinct in Illinois.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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The researchers also analyzed tiny plant remains fossilizing in the cubs’ stomachs, revealing that the wolves lived in a dry, somewhat mild environment that could support diverse vegetation including prairie grasses, willows and shrub leaves.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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