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as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs cows foraging in the pasture

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forage

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noun

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Verb
In home environments, rabbits should have multiple piles of grass hay to forage through, Valand said, and an extra-large cat litter box filled with grass hay as well. Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025 The link between nomadic lifestyles and ADHD has been proposed before, but in February, a team led by David Barack applied that hypothesis to foraging. Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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One hypothesis is that gripping and subsequently nails emerged specifically to help our predecessors forage fruits and nuts at the end of tree branches, says Doug Boyer, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024 Fall is an important time to provide forage and nectar plants with fall blooms, along with berrying shrubs and trees for wildlife. — Mary Phillips, NWF Garden for Wildlife Program Sylvia Schmeichel, lead horticulturist with Smithsonian Gardens agrees. Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for forage 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forage
Verb
  • But the men survived, one suffering a shot to the shoulder and the other grazed by a bullet.
    Kate Payne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • One person was shot in the left shoulder; the other grazed in their forearm.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
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  • The show can also be followed live on the Critics Choice Awards’ Instagram and X feeds (@CriticsChoice), TikTok (@OfficialCriticsChoice) and Facebook.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to sharing the post on her Instagram Stories alongside crying eyes and red heart emojis, Collins posted her own photo with Tove on her main Instagram feed.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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  • The hunt for a new partner comes during a busy time for United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia, who bought the team for a record $4 billion from ex-Western Alliance chairman Robert Sarver two years ago.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Ultimately, Bregman and Crochet were enough to put the Red Sox back in the playoff hunt.
    Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
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  • Jimmi Simpson, in a rare recurring Western role, plays Solomon’s boss, Tom Simpson, a disgraced banker put out to pasture at the Tokyo branch.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Electricity cables buzz overhead and the smell of silage from a nearby equestrian centre wafts through the air.
    Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • As the farmer tells RTÉ News, he’s never encountered anything like this in his field before, and he’s been cutting silage in the same area for more than three decades.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
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  • These typically cover essential rights, including the right to remain silent, the right to refuse consent to a search, and what to do if ICE arrives at a home, workplace, or public space.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • More top news stories: Nationwide search expected to find next COPA chief Boy killed, woman and two firefighters hurt in West Ridge apartment fire Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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  • The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969, is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In the fall of 1942, Ambassador Winant, who had assisted Stimson’s quest to join the RAMC, solicited her support in trying to change the U.S. military’s attitude toward women doctors.
    Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
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  • That shortlist provided constant fodder for conversation, and threatened to overwhelm the typical amiable pre-screening chatter about the actual program of films.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister genre mashup, blending romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025

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