Thesaurus results for FEEDLOT

feedlot

noun

Definition of feedlot

as in ranch

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Recent Examples of feedlot In Texas, feedlots where Mexican cows were fattened up were hit hard, and that also affected beef supply in the United States. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 9 June 2026 Solid manure from feedlots, poultry houses or composting dairy barns is spread and tilled under. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026 Victims in the case included feedlots, ranchers and cattle purchasers, investigators said. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2026 Experts speculated that dry-lot cows can’t sweat as freely as free-range cows, and that weather and feedlot conditions contributed to deadly heat exhaustion. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for feedlot

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Noun

This summer, Rodgers put together a team-bonding trip to a ranch out west for four days.

— Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
McKinney, who founded the network-consulting and security-services provider International Network Services, originally snapped up the Sonoma ranch in 2014 for just $12 million.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of ranch

Noun

This is the fourth consecutive year Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena has hosted the championship, making the stockyards city the de facto home of NCAA gymnastics.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2026
Here, rather like the Chicago stockyards, thousands of dairy cows are fed in crowded feedlots by a method called intensive and dry-lot feeding, or, alternately, kept indoors in barns.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026

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Mixed-use pastures known as dehesas were planted with crops and peppered with oak trees, which provided cork and firewood.

— Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
The lawsuit says the officers did not contact Israel beforehand and did not have her consent, a warrant or an emergency that legally justified entering the pasture.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026