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pasture

[pas-cher, pahs-] / ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs- /
NOUN
field for animals
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Livestock and crops die where pasture and water supplies are buried or contaminated by ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The government has put the dearth of milk in recent months down to drought, which has significantly reduced pasture and hampered production.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The bottled Coca-Cola is sweetened with cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup, and the beef in the Steakburgers comes from cattle raised on pasture grass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

“There’s no paid staff, and we mostly support niche tech projects, like people exploring new ways to preserve trees in Morocco or to regeneratively regrow a pasture in Oregon,” Khosla told me.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Three bedrooms. A big kitchen. Even a fancy barn and pasture for Midnight and Belle.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

She is one of a number of Europeans who are moving north in search of cooler weather and greener pastures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

So Verstappen is earning a bit more money but, if Red Bull are still struggling for competitiveness next year, there will remain the prospect he could look for pastures new.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The ranchers depend on snowmelt that feeds the Colorado River and its tributaries to nourish grasses and hay pastures for their herds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

But within minutes, he was out in the open, stumbling across upland fields and pastures that were sporadically lit by a half moon showing through clouds.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

And while players won’t get free laundry and dry cleaning, or a menu containing pastured eggs and wild-caught seafood in player dining, they at least get access to cold plunges and courtesy cars.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Shopping for 100% grassfed beef or pastured chicken used to mean seeking out a specialty butcher shop, visiting a farmers' market, or going straight to the source by stopping by a local farm.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021

Alexandre Family Farm: This California farm specializes in organic milk and eggs but also sells grass-fed beef and pastured pork.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2020

Zoyla and Gregoria and I used to play market together while we pastured the animals.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

After breakfast, I’m in the valley pasturing sheep under a sky the dull gray of cow intestines, when Hermelinda appears on the hill.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau




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