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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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Hike part of the Appalachian trail, meditate by a waterfall, forest bathe, or forage for medicinal plants with a guide. Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025 The climate at the time could have allowed the large herd to forage year round, researchers said. Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2025
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Here’s how to forage, eat and grow the mighty fungi in L.A. Feb. 1, 2023 Chilton, who is usually clean-shaven, wears clear rectangular glasses and is a keen trout fisher, founded mushroom distributor Nammex in 1989. Mattha Busby, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025 Related Stories How To Keep Carpenter Bees Away From Your Home How To Get Rid Of Crickets In The House How To Get Rid Of A Wasp Nest For nests that must be eliminated, wait until evening to treat because too many workers are out foraging during the day, says Raupp. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for forage
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  • Derik Queen, holding a basketball firmly between his fingertips, squared up the Hall of Famer in front of him, a legend from West Baltimore and unofficial king of New York who is considered one of the 75 best basketball players to graze this earth.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
  • None of the shots hit the targets, but one grazed a bystander.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
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  • The LinkedIn feed is full of safe, vanilla content because everyone's scared to offend.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • And that’s exactly the problem: The market (and your feed) is oversaturated with content.
    Kathy Schenfelt, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
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  • Because too many deer in Arkansas can be harmful to the environment and even to the deer herd itself, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, partnered with other organizations, are having their annual urban archery deer hunt this fall in a select number of communities.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
  • As the Catholic archdiocese hunts for ways to contract, it’s been shedding churches wholesale and having no trouble finding buyers that are tuned to the doings — or undoing — of religious organizations.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
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  • Which means Facebook and Zuckerberg’s purchases were attempts to keep Facebook great in a marketplace that routinely and ruthlessly puts former greats out to pasture. Crucial about Zuckerberg’s keen eye for what’s ahead is that markets, stock markets in particular, are a bit impatient.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • But, having the right formula for long-term success remains elusive for many, with Canoo, Fisker and Nikola all put out to pasture with bankruptcy filings.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • The feed is a mix of roughage (hay), silage (grass), and grain.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The lighter roughage and silage flies farther than the grain does, leaving the cow with a pile of the tastier stuff as the rest gets tossed out of reach.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
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  • The search for Manny’s body, which was concentrated to a plot that is 200 feet by 200 feet by 4 feet, took four weeks, deputies said.
    Kate Linderman July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
  • Kerrville saw massive search and rescue efforts, with at least 75 fatalities reported in the area, including 27 children.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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  • Some users are motivated by leaderboards, others by quiet streaks or personal quests.
    Sammy Rubin, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Everything England have done since losing 4-1 in India last year is to try to produce an attack that could win in Australia, hence the jettisoning of James Anderson, the quest for faster bowlers, and the Shoaib Bashir project.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 8 July 2025
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  • Throughout his campaign, clips of his mayoral debates, including his handling of questions pressing him on his opinions on Israel and his searing critiques of Cuomo, also became fodder for memes and discourse that propelled him further into online popularity.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 26 June 2025
  • Kamala Harris pounded Joe Biden over his stances on busing from the 1970s—a long-ago dispute that even became fodder for J.D. Vance in 2024.
    Andrew Yang, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025

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