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  • present participle of feed.
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feeding

[fee-ding] / ˈfi dɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
grazing
Synonyms
ADJECTIVE
nursing
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
ranging
Synonyms




NOUN
pasture
Synonyms




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Johannismühle offers small group tours to allow visitors to spend time with some animals, with its site mentioning feeding wolves or petting a llama.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The recorded dramas “are feeding my soul,” BookTok influencer Shaniah Hackbarth told her followers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Some skeletal features may indicate an aquatic lifestyle, while others suggest that the same animal remained capable of moving and feeding on land.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Residents say the coyote had been a nuisance in the area since January, when a neighbor began feeding it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

‘And why we’re feeding them off the best china when we’ve eaten scraps for dinner for months?’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Rowe regularly traveled to Sawe’s camp in Kenya where they simulated competitive environments and feedings to prepare Sawe’s stomach to handle it—that “gut training” crucial for race day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Among my food-minded friends, I’ve witnessed exchanges that feel almost intimate in their care: Mason jars of peppery bone broth made for a new mother, cold at the edges and vaguely carnivorous during late-night feedings.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025

On its website, Penny Appeal says it provides poverty relief in Asia, the Middle East and Africa by "offering water solutions, organising mass feedings, supporting orphan care and providing emergency food and medical aid".

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

Over the course of five daily feedings, the zoo gives its walruses a combined 150 pounds of restaurant-grade seafood.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023

In addition to the daily multitude, those amateur cooks were faced with allergy cases, diabetics, nursing mothers, infants who required special feedings.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston


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