ranger

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Recent Examples of ranger Park rangers located a vehicle owned by the missing hikers, both from Ulster County, at a day-use parking lot the morning of Monday, June 2, Baxter State Park confirmed on a Facebook. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 4 June 2025 Baxter State Park rangers began searching for them Monday morning after their vehicle was still found parked at the trailhead in the day-use parking lot, park officials said. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 3 June 2025 The body of Alec Campbell, a 38-year-old park resource ranger, was located in Neshaminy Creek at Tyler State Park on Sunday, May 25, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said in a news release. Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 26 May 2025 Loan rangers could go private President Donald Trump wants to show Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the door. Quartz Staff, Quartz, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for ranger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranger
Noun
  • The company states that movable bridges, such as drawbridges, can cause delays for marine or other traffic when the structures are moved in high heat.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Since the 1990s, the corporate raider has owned a beachfront home off Lily Pond Lane, one of the most expensive streets in East Hampton.
    Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025
  • The area had long been a refuge for the Nuba, many of whom are descendants of people who were pushed out of other parts of Sudan by Arab raiders.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • All districts were open to riflemen and bowmen alike.
    Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Shortly after, a procession of riflemen and a statue of the Virgin Mary are paraded from San Geronimo de Taos church in front of more than 1,000 onlookers.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Crew can be assigned to the deck or boarding teams, with multiple slots for cannoneers, gunners, and boarders.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Artillery is a delicate skill, with cannoneers assessing topography, air pressure and even the weather at the top of the round’s parabolic arc before taking a shot.
    Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • During the 1930s and '40s, what was left of Indianola was turned into a major training base for thousands of artillerymen.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The idea was that a group of military commandos would break quarantine and try to get to the place where the virus had originated, in order to find a cure.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • Visions of Israeli commandos training Malaitan farmers swarmed my imagination.
    Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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“Ranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranger. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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