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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

“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

Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

These ranchers have also grappled with high costs for necessities like animal feed, pasture maintenance and farm labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

He bade each man choose out three thick-fleeced rams and bind them together with strong, pliant strips of bark; then to wait for day, when the flock would be sent out to pasture.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Rancher Jay Fetcher said that with climate change, the snow is melting much earlier in the spring on his high-elevation pastures.

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

"It rained a lot this winter; the pastures were very overgrown," Rodriguez said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

‘Because we is meant to be in the middle of London and suddenly we is in green pastures.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

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

Cows and sheep should not be allowed to roam over public lands and should be pastured in fenced areas and protected by guard dogs.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Cooking more at home, eliminating ultra-processed food, choosing grass-fed beef, dairy products and pastured eggs from certified humane companies all go a long way in helping to shift away from eating a high omega-6 diet.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

Last year, $14-per-pound exotic mushrooms, $20 pastured chickens and $50 bottles of olive oil were not uncommon purchases.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019

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

The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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