rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher For the farmer, rancher, or woodland manager who needs 365-day access to the unpaved and unimproved, these are add-ons to an already useful workhorse. New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2025 The town says state laws that protect rancher rights limit its ability to address the curious cows. Axios Phoenix, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025 Many ranchers and feedlot operators are transparent about their practices, providing consumers with the information needed to make informed choices. Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers. Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • Together, almost 200 lawsuits allege that everyone from cattlemen to meat wholesalers and distributors to end users like McDonald’s have lost billions of dollars because they were either forced to pay too much for beef or were paid too little for their cattle.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Hurd's haul includes cash infusions from the Koch brothers and other conservative PACs like the Mainstreet Partnership, and the national cattlemen's and automobile dealers' associations.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • Roosevelt observes that the cougars of his time are docile and timid, terrified of the rifle-bearing ranchman who had come to dominate their homelands.
    Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • This once summer residence of the Marquis de Mores—an Old West frontier ranchman—and his family includes many of their original furnishings.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 6 June 2019
Noun
  • Houston Tye Hinton, resident stockman at the Anchor 7 Cattle Growers Association, is winding down after a long day of branding cattle.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Just as Darwin cultivated stockmen and pigeon breeders for their familiarity with the mysterious laws of inheritance, biologists interested in rattlesnakes have beaten a path to Martin’s door.
    Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Noun
  • Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Hot Springs horseman Ted Bowman owns Speed King, a Volatile colt, whose next race at Oaklawn has not been determined, Moquett said, in a second post-Southwest workout.
    Bob Wisener, arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Pedestrians captured by safety cameras can be rendered as zombies onscreen, with cyclists and motorcycles appearing as headless horsemen.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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