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Recent Examples of pasture
NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
Or look to your nearest pasture of cows, who apparently start lying down in the event of a coming storm.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Some honored veterans will soon be let out to pasture.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 19 July 2025
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Noun
For most of the year, the animals roam the island’s northern pastures, hills and cliffs, but in the days before Christmas, they’re rounded up and brought to the shearing pens.
—NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
Or look to your nearest pasture of cows, who apparently start lying down in the event of a coming storm.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
Hence their motivation to send Powell out to pasture—save billions in interest payments and take control of the bond market.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Some honored veterans will soon be let out to pasture.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasture
Noun
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And yet authorities have never fully investigated what happened at the ranch.—
Hallie Jackson,
NBC news,
20 Apr. 2026
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Bill and Doris Cooper were responsible for converting all 28 acres of vines to CCOF Certified Organic status in 2011, a designation maintained to this day by general manager Jan Garrod and his son Trevor, who serves as winemaker and ranch yard foreman.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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And on the next pitch, a curveball broke in and grazed Jackson Merrill’s pant leg.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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The arrow grazed Baez’s ear, deputies say.—
David Goodhue
April 22,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The material visually connects different areas in the yard and serves as soothing negative space.—
Elizabeth Jardina,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Apr. 2026
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Joaquín Pereyra was threatening down the right side; Jefferson Diaz won the ball back and centered a pass to the top of the box; and Kelvin Yeboah’s dummy run drew in Portland’s defense to give Chancalay space outside the 18-yard box.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
19 Apr. 2026
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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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
9 Feb. 2020
Noun
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Bright lives in a small town far out on Colorado’s prairie and has several disabling medical conditions.—
Josh Boak,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Bright lives in a small town far out on Colorado’s prairie and has several disabling medical conditions.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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