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as in ranch
open land over which livestock may roam and feed horses grazing in a fenced pasture

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verb

as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs pasturing sheep on town lands was actually a cheaper alternative to mowing

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Noun
This Rhode Island estate, named Bayberry Farm, provides the waterfront view and fields of open pasture. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024 The winding ribbon of pavement curves through a striking combination of pine forests, golden pastures and sparkling lakes. Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2024
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This is when the wranglers round up the thundering herd of horses to bring them into the ranch for trail rides during the day and take them back out to pasture in the evening. Gwen Pratesi, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024 The group raised ducks and chickens and pastured their 150 sheep on the same hills the Palestinian shepherds had roamed before the war. Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for pasture 
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Noun
  • With some help from George, the Native American ranch hand who works for Natty (played by Ben Cardinal), and their mother’s old horse Lightning, the twin girls quickly piece together that the ranch’s financial failings may have more to do with Bart’s meddling than with Natty’s business model.
    Sara Belcher, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The ranches and dairies of the Point Reyes Seashore Ranchers Association intervened in the suit.
    Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Dairy cows grazing on a farm near Oxford, New Zealand, in 2018.
    Mahalia Dobson, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Crooks fatally shot one rally attendee, and one of his bullets grazed Trump’s ear, streaking his face with blood.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Also worth reading 🏈 Football: The Lions had another historic day Sunday, setting franchise records for total yards, most first downs and margin of victory in a 52-6 beatdown of the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars at Ford Field.
    Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Travis Hunter had several Heisman moments but only a mediocre day receiving by his standards (five catches for 55 yards).
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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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
  • 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
Noun
  • Daines likes to target big game such as elk and antelope while Thune likes to hunt pheasant in South Dakota’s fields and prairies, which are considered the best pheasant hunting ground in the country.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There were no bears here until the McCormick Reaper drove New England farmers west to the rich, level prairies in the mid-1800s.
    Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024

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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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