pasturing

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In the past 30 years, swaths of Nicaragua's vast Caribbean forests have been destroyed by settlers clearing land for agriculture, ranchers pasturing cattle, and loggers harvesting precious wood.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2020

“We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

“And what is the history? The horse pasturing has been going on for a long time there with no objection.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2015

The horse in question, Raisa, might have expected a quiet pasturing after a working life carrying members of the Metropolitan Police Service.

From Time • Mar. 28, 2012

Three of his young men were afield, pasturing herds in other woods; one he had sent with a fat boar for tribute into town, the boy to serve while the suitors got their fill.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer