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grazing

[grey-zing] / ˈgreɪ zɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
keeping livestock on the range
Synonyms


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Now about half a million acres are sitting dormant, and other abandoned groves have been absorbed for cattle grazing or Florida’s lucrative development sprawl.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

The work will also build on innovative use of GPS livestock collars to manage grazing more precisely.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Authorities have also allowed a temporary easing of strict rules for making several types of cheese after heatwaves scorched grazing pastures.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

One of the most memorable photographs on view was taken by Jeanne-Claude, printed large and picturing a wide expanse of landscape, with cows grazing near the fence.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

A few of the lumbering mammals stood grazing in the enclosures.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.

From New York Times May 2, 2015

Instead, the thin sheep of the clansmen, each with its owner's brand to identify it, wander forth to the common grazings, glad that the bloom of living is on Nature again.

From The Black Colonel by James Milne

Having secured this privilege, he posted himself fifteen or twenty miles to the southwest of Tegua, behind a butte which was extensive enough to conceal his wild cavalry, even in its grazings.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed to the distant grazings called sheilings.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.

From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




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