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as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs cows foraging in the pasture

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noun

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Recent Examples of forage
Verb
The species doesn’t move inland, depending on coastal habitats and forage to survive. Molly Duerig, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025 Watch your roommate forage in the kitchen like a wild animal. Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
Noun
They’re spotted foraging on golf courses and even breeding in suburban wetlands near Chicago. Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025 Ant baits are effective because foraging workers take the food back to the nest and share so that everyone in the colony is exposed. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forage
Verb
  • But the apex predators quickly began doing what predators do — finding food to hunt, kill and eat, including among the many thousands of cows and calves sent to the state’s high rangeland to graze during the summer.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After escaping into the Arizona summer heat, the cow hoofed it through traffic and grazed by a pond, per photos and footage shared by the nonprofit, also located in San Tan Valley.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scott, attending a court hearing via video feed from Corcoran state prison, clasped his hands and thanked God and all involved with his release.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hunter made her first court appearance on Monday, appearing via a video feed from jail, where a Wake County District Court judge set her bail at $30,000.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The hunt begins But the shooter wasn’t in the crowd.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement The flurry of updates came three days after Robinson was arrested following an intensive hunt for Kirk's killer.
    Richard Hall, Time, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another is to acquaint yourself with the courage and good-heartedness of those who are making it now, and who will one day lead us out to pasture.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Hence their motivation to send Powell out to pasture—save billions in interest payments and take control of the bond market.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Water trucks roll past bunkers stacked with silage.
    Elly Fishman, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The lighter roughage and silage flies farther than the grain does, leaving the cow with a pile of the tastier stuff as the rest gets tossed out of reach.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities asked residents in the immediate area of 75th Street North and Inwood Way North to shelter in place during the search.
    Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The search, according to law enforcement, is connected to the Tesla and the investigation of the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas.
    Andrew Blankstein, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The launch arrangement between Northrop and SpaceX abrogates NASA's preference to maintain two independent means of delivering supplies to the space station.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The old residence no longer had electricity or running water, so supporters brought them supplies.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The especially disturbing aspect is that the AI can introduce new problems while in the quest to do the clean-up.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Colm Dillane is the man of a thousand side-quests.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Forage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forage. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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