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

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noun

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Microorganisms foraging in the environment also keep bacterial populations in check. Kate Adamala, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025 The lodge is nearly 300 miles northeast of Saskatoon, outside the historic community of Cumberland House, and visitors can look forward to winter activities such as plant foraging, aurora borealis viewing, and fat-biking excursions. Steve Lyons, AFAR Media, 20 Mar. 2025
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Fire prevents the growth of competing vegetation and maintains the open, savanna-like conditions these woodpeckers need to nest and forage. Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 Or watching wood dry, rather, since entire episodes are spent watching Penelope teach herself to start a fire or build a shelter or forage for food. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for forage
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  • Once complete, my fingertips grazed my cold, naked scalp.
    Christina Fang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
  • While lying on a beach in Mexico with the painter Ed Ruscha, she was grazed by a stray bullet on the thigh.
    Nathan Taylor Pemberton, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • From the coaches’ offices, where there’s a live camera feed from the floor, Mulkey and Starkey watched as the team ran a perfect walkthrough.
    Chantel Jennings, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • More: Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention The government could use AI to identify objects or persons of interest by sifting through satellite images and other data feeds, much like the Defense Department can do on the battlefield, said two sources familiar with the initiative.
    Marisa Taylor and Jeffrey Dastin, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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  • The egg hunt continues, and the town (and the friends) gets its annual fresh start.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Attendees are asked to bring a basket and meet in the school lunchroom (door K) before the hunt.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
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  • Some wondered if this was simply Google's way of putting the decade-old device out to pasture.
    Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
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
Noun
  • Think about how search works today, especially in enterprise software.
    Balaji Sreenivasan, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The search resulted in 63 general acute care hospitals in the Metroplex, including Medical City hospitals, Baylor Scott & White hospitals, Methodist Medical Centers, Texas Rehabilitation Hospitals and others.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • In an excerpt published by People, Hanks writes about her turbulent upbringing, the aftermath of her parents’ divorce and her quest to understand her mom.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Developing that capability has been a priority of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in his quest to absorb Taiwan — either by negotiations or by war.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • The ballot gaffe has created political fodder for candidates who are running for Skokie clerk, including Desai, who is running after she was appointed clerk in 2024.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But much of the attention has centered on Musk, whose role in the administration has received outsized attention and whose presence in the race has given fodder to Democrats supporting Crawford.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 30 Mar. 2025

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“Forage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forage. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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