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Recent Examples of pasture
Mike Nolan, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
Farmers can no longer irrigate their crops, and shepherds can no longer reach their pastures.
—Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 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
Our trek began at Saint Bees, surrounded by green pastures, rocky beaches, and light brown bluffs.
—Mike Nolan, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
Farmers can no longer irrigate their crops, and shepherds can no longer reach their pastures.
—Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 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 operation is massive: participants haul wagons and horses up to Nevada from all over California and coordinate nightly rest stops in shopping centers, ranches, even neighborhoods.—
Tina Li,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2025
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Blue Origin, the space company founded and owned by Jeff Bezos, launched six people to the edge of space Saturday, May 31, from Bezos' ranch in West Texas, CBS News reports.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 6,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Gardner was grazed in the head and shot in the leg, per police.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
27 May 2025
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The earliest sloths were large and grazed on the ground.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2025
Noun
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The girls’ bodies were about 75 yards away, down a small embankment.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
8 June 2025
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During his first season with the Commanders, Ekeler appeared in 12 games and rushed for 367 yards and four touchdowns.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 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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The authors’ arguments in defense of the prairie and its people deserve attention.—
Monitor staff,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2025
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Beneath its wide skies and quiet prairies lies a rugged and surprising variety of landscapes with trails galore.—
Brian Higgins,
Outside Online,
20 May 2025
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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