animal husbandry

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Recent Examples of animal husbandry Their findings add strong evidence that the rise of animal husbandry forever shaped humanity’s relationship with disease, though the timing defied their expectations. Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025 Last year, a new animal husbandry ordinance permitted residents to own honey bees, as well as chickens and ducks. Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 17 July 2025 The plight of the honeybee, Hung explained, should be viewed as a matter of animal husbandry — the branch of agriculture that focuses on raising animals for production of food and other items. Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 7 July 2025 And then, yeah, moved into some really exciting use cases and things like animal husbandry. IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for animal husbandry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animal husbandry
Noun
  • According to the agriculture department, testing has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds, as well as within backyard flocks and commercial flocks statewide.
    Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
  • These schools offer economical associate/bachelor’s degrees and important technical certificates/credentials that support the high demand industries in Texas, including jobs in technology, health care, hospitality, paraprofessional and agriculture.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Reports commissioned by Molly Scott Cato, the Green Party MEP for Southwest England, and others revolve around mixed farming, increasing biodiversity, and addressing big issues such as loss of topsoil and supporting farming communities.
    Craig Ballinger, Slate Magazine, 20 Mar. 2017
Noun
  • In the 1960s, widespread concerns about the environmental effects of pesticides like DDT boosted interest in organic farming.
    Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • It is estimated that undocumented immigrants make up 10% of Florida’s workforce, especially in construction and farming.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Going to the Super Bowl is about participating in monoculture while simultaneously asserting your singularity.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • And then, before everyone was sent home to the land of ICE, the closing night of GJWW provided a pure, epic bacchanal of covers from the 1990s, arguably the last era in which there was anything resembling a pop monoculture.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Frachetti, who specializes in pastoralism in the Bronze Age, was also not involved with the study.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • As forests receded—along with the elk—people in the Altai region began adopting semi-nomadic pastoralism and horseback riding.
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Archaeologists have traced the cultivation of the date palm—also known as Phoenix dactylifera—back millennia.
    Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Innovation in Production Across legal markets, AI is already creeping into cultivation, not as sci-fi robots trimming buds, but as quiet systems making decisions humans used to make by gut.
    Aisha Alves, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Since 1999, Nicole has been a designer, copy editor, family columnist, and covered style, home design, gardening and other news-you-can-use topics.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The lean days of the Pandemic taught me to monetize my gardening, foraging, and cooking hobbies.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • While wolf populations have risen across Europe, the most popular explanation in Finland for the record number of wolf attacks in the northern reindeer husbandry regions lies hundreds of miles away: deep in the Russian trenches of Ukraine.
    Mick Krever, CNN Money, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In Bulgaria, village music was typically sung by peasants while tending to agriculture and husbandry; at weddings; and to express national pride.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025

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“Animal husbandry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animal%20husbandry. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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