grazing
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Now about half a million acres are sitting dormant, and other abandoned groves have been absorbed for cattle grazing or Florida’s lucrative development sprawl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The UN Convention on Migratory Species identifies Africa's longest migrations as wildebeest moving seasonally between Tanzania and Kenya in search of grazing and water covering more than 400 miles.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Authorities have also allowed a temporary easing of strict rules for making several types of cheese after heatwaves scorched grazing pastures.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
It attributes this to a delay in the seasonal rains, which has reduced the grazing ground available, coupled with a 45% rise in the cost of animal feed.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sheep were everywhere, grazing in green fields, lazing beneath trees, or drinking at the stream.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2015
Having secured this privilege, he posted himself fifteen or twenty miles to the southwest of Tegua, behind a butte which was extensive enough to conceal his wild cavalry, even in its grazings.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed to the distant grazings called sheilings.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
He rented large grazings in Dumfriesshire, where he wintered and grazed the Highlanders, and which, I believe, his relatives still retain.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie
Already the pastures were crowded with stock brought in from distant valleys and grazings.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum