pasture
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Out to pasture: Despite a big-name cast, apparently good ratings and an Emmy push, Netflix has canceled the sci-fi thriller “The Boroughs” after one season.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
"This will be our last year," Deliev said, driving his cows to pasture in the Rhodope mountains.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
"The middle class was shown this green pasture," he says.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The cop on his last day before retirement is a trope that needs to be sent out to pasture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Even though I was both weary and faint, I still had a horse to turn out to pasture and morning chores to do.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Four years ago, a major drought dried up pastures and water supplies, forcing ranchers to sell their livestock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
The cattle business has been a bright spot for the farm economy with many ranchers hauling in record sums owing to a shortage of cattle on pastures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
If Lily, Mopple and the rest can set their part of the world right, there’s no reason we can’t find our way to better pastures, too.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
But also someone who could have gone to other pastures as well as Barcelona, alhough when he did, he felt he had left home.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
So I ran uphill and down, clambering over the stone and rail fences that divided the pastures.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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
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
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The tradition of alpine pasturing, or “transhumance,” spreads all across the Alps, including Austria, Italy and Germany.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
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
“Cleaning the house and taking care of the boys and pasturing the cow.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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