forage
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At first, Americans mostly grew soybeans as forage and livestock feed.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Bumblebees usually forage within about 1.5 km of their nests, giving them fewer opportunities to avoid local pollution.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Consider using small-holed haynets or slow feeders to reduce waste and help forage last longer.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The surrogate teaches the pup to groom, forage, and behave like a wild otter, Long said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Grandson, reach in my pocket and grab the keys in there,” Grandpop said, interrupting Genie’s frantic forage.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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Chef Mo, who owns a tiny hole-in-the-wall eatery in Jeonju, forages her own mushrooms on the mountainside, grows produce in her backyard and makes most of her laborious, time-intensive dishes from scratch.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
Ms Avery says she uses the ingredients she forages as inspiration for her products at L.A.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
The land he forages straddles the Muscogee Nation and the Cherokee Nation, and he’s thinking of his elisi — grandmother in Cherokee — who taught him how to pick and cook wild onions.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
A curious sea otter pup peeks out from behind a column of kelp while it forages for crabs or snails off California’s Monterey Bay.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 14, 2023
Emma didn’t mind his experiments with her flowers or his forages into her sewing box for threads to use in his experiments.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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She said they were important to island ecosystems as they dropped seeds as they foraged, helping forest regeneration, and were a key indicator species for overall ecosystem health.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Savannah and her mother joked about the javelinas, the piglike animals that foraged through the family’s trash cans at night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
If you’ve eaten a foraged mushroom and start to exhibit any adverse symptoms, call California’s poison control hotline at 1-800-222-1222 for free, confidential expert advice in multiple languages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
Six bumble bee colonies foraged in a shared arena where they could approach feeders that either had ants nearby or had no ants at all.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
“Okra is not edible in my book. Like something forgotten that’s been foraged and forced on us. Like eggplant and mushrooms.”
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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For Unsworth, autumn is the highlight of the foraging calendar.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
If a new queen survives until her first brood emerges as adult workers, though, then the odds are in her favour as she no longer needs to undertake risky foraging.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
He's already been out in his kayak to catch fish, he's been foraging for mushrooms and berries, and he's enjoyed vegetables from his neighbour's croft.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
With the decline of logging and cannabis as livelihoods, they see income from tourists attracted by ultramarathons, mushroom foraging and other outdoor activities as a financial savior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The amount of food the rabbits produced was not very large, but once inside the wood the bird clearly felt safer and was able to hobble about and do some foraging for itself.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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