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Recent Examples of foraging
Go crabbing, clamming, hiking, or mushroom foraging with a guide, head out for a fat-tire bike ride, or enjoy a beach bonfire, already set up for you, for the coziest way to end a day on the coast.
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Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
In 2013 researchers reported that bees can sense electrical fields around flowers and use that information to guide their foraging decisions.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Our new evidence aligns with skeletal adaptations that suggest powerful digging abilities, consistent with foraging foods both above and below ground.
—Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Guests learn navigation, shelter building, spear making, and foraging for wild foods, along with fire-starting and astro-navigation techniques.
—Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
Arctic seals rely on sea ice for breeding and raising their pups, as well as for moulting, resting and accessing foraging areas.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
This may help raccoons more easily identify edible and non-edible objects, especially when foraging in streams.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
The collaboration ensures animals receive fresh, natural foods that encourage their natural behaviors, like foraging, stripping bark, or reaching for leaves.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Complete your mushroom foraging kit This roomy mushroom gathering basket has a tote for easy over-the-shoulder toting.
—Callie Sumlin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
In 2013 researchers reported that bees can sense electrical fields around flowers and use that information to guide their foraging decisions.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Our new evidence aligns with skeletal adaptations that suggest powerful digging abilities, consistent with foraging foods both above and below ground.
—Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Guests learn navigation, shelter building, spear making, and foraging for wild foods, along with fire-starting and astro-navigation techniques.
—Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
Arctic seals rely on sea ice for breeding and raising their pups, as well as for moulting, resting and accessing foraging areas.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
This may help raccoons more easily identify edible and non-edible objects, especially when foraging in streams.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
The collaboration ensures animals receive fresh, natural foods that encourage their natural behaviors, like foraging, stripping bark, or reaching for leaves.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Complete your mushroom foraging kit This roomy mushroom gathering basket has a tote for easy over-the-shoulder toting.
—Callie Sumlin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foraging
grazing
Verb
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Given the widespread risk of catastrophic wildfire, the federal government must better utilize grazing to combat the wildfire crisis.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The menswear designer's ensemble consisted of a knee-grazing black cardigan with a contrasting denim collar and button trim, matching black pants and black leather loafers.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Foraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foraging. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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