cattleman

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Recent Examples of cattleman 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 The Cave Spring Cowboy Camp is a historic site used by cattlemen from the late 1800s through 1975. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 May 2024 Western lawmakers aren’t eager to pick fights with the powerful cattlemen in their state. Philip Elliott, TIME, 3 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for cattleman
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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
  • Colorado ranchers continue to oppose the reintroduction over concerns of wolves killing livestock, and CPW commissioners earlier this year denied a petition brought by ranchers that sought to delay the program.
    Max Levy, Denver Post, 16 May 2025
  • Enter fellow local outcast, rancher Lefty Ledbetter (Hauser), who just might have the funds to get out of town…if the theft of a coveted Indigenous Lakota ghost shirt goes through.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The four horsemen of Big Tech — Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft — all report earnings this week, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That frontier epic, set at the turn of the 20th century, followed three horsemen who set out across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to loving dogs, the Queen was an avid horsewoman, and her beloved fell pony Emma — whom the Queen rode into her nineties — stood on the grounds of Windsor Castle as Her late Majesty’s coffin made its final journey to St. George’s Chapel.
    Rachel Burchfield, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Mary Gaylord McClean Located at the entrance to the Shelbyville Fairgrounds, Mary Gaylord McClean is a champion American Saddlebred show horsewoman.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2024
Noun
  • Softly came the sound of a Toda herdsman calling to his buffaloes.
    Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
  • Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy.
    Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Cattleman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cattleman. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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