as in farm
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock
lives on a cattle ranch in Texas that's as big as the whole state of Rhode Island
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Recent Examples of ranch
Take a peek behind the music in this tale about a Muscogee pop star who hunkers down at her estranged grandmother’s Oklahoma ranch to weather a public scandal and meets a grumpy cowboy.
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Jamie Harrow, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Jerry Izenberg used his walker to prop open the door of his ranch-style house and beckoned me inside.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
By November, 2019, Carr was living in a trailer with his wife and stepdaughter on Davis’s ranch, outside Seguin, thirty-five miles from San Antonio.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
In March, the agency cut more than $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase goods from local farms and ranches.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
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Jamie Harrow, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Jerry Izenberg used his walker to prop open the door of his ranch-style house and beckoned me inside.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
By November, 2019, Carr was living in a trailer with his wife and stepdaughter on Davis’s ranch, outside Seguin, thirty-five miles from San Antonio.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
In March, the agency cut more than $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase goods from local farms and ranches.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranch
farm
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Feeding a rapidly growing population while cutting emissions demands nothing short of a transformation in how we farm, finance and fuel the future.—
Lucy Hurst,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Police were dispatched to Haar Road in Spring Grove, a heavily agricultural borough of York County dotted with small barns and sprawling farm land.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Ranch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranch. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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