rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Longer term, Peel expects beef prices to stay high for the next several years as ranchers work on rebuilding their herds. Alain Sherter, CBS News, 8 July 2025 For the past decade, Randy Savvy, a musician and rancher, has continued his family's mission of offering horseback rides to at-risk youth while using music to unite country music with hip-hop and Western culture. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Drought exacerbated by climate change in recent years has led many cattle ranchers to thin the size of their herds, nowhere more so than in Colorado. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 2 July 2025 In 1892, at a meeting of cattle ranchers at the Stock Raiser’s Convention in Austin, Texas, Dr. B.A. Rogers introduced a novel theory that ticks were behind recent devastating plagues of Texas cattle fever. Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • The city was originally named Jernigan after a couple of cattlemen who originally settled here.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
  • In the November 2024 general election, McGruder defeated Marion Republican Robert Thorne Jr., who is a landscaper and cattleman, by a margin of 4,814 to 4,691, according to the secretary of state's website.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2025
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
  • There’s a growing group of modern-day families choosing to leave the materialistic world behind and become homesteaders—off the land and completely self-sufficient.
    Megan Margulies, Outside Online, 16 July 2025
  • His first thought was that this would be a large enough area for hikers to wander around for extended periods, experiencing the classic Ozark Mountain wildness that the original homesteaders of the 1820s had known.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Professional bareback horsemen Tim O'Connell, Cole Reiner, discuss May's Music City Rodeo, event, culture's potential for growth in Nashville, more.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • There were escorts from fighter jets and flag-bearing Arabian horsemen.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 May 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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