pasture

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On your 65th birthday in Ecuador, you reach “tercera edad” status, which translates to “third age” — much kinder than “over the hill” or “out to pasture.”

From MarketWatch

Then Marinovich, a Democrat working in conjunction with state Republican leaders in Topeka, offered tax incentives to draw a race car stadium to pastures of western KCK, beating out other bidders including KCMO.

From The Wall Street Journal

The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.

From Salon

Producers raise calves on pastures until they are old enough to be sold at auction to a feedlot.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a pasture a short walk from IRC’s clinic, ProPublica found at least three dozen mounds covered in sticks — the makeshift graves, village leaders said, of those who died of cholera before reaching the clinic.

From Salon