ranch

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 People – mostly men – would come from East Coast cities like New York to ranches on vacation, often dressed in full cowboy attire, according to Bryce Albright, executive director of the National Dude Ranchers Association, an organization that has been around for almost 100 years. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 30 July 2025 The jury was shown transcripts of angry emails and text messages between Serafini and his wife’s parents showing a heated, ongoing dispute over a $1.3 million loan from his in-laws to help fund his wife’s fledgling horse ranch business. Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025 Ranch: The Ranch Snack Wrap delivers a satisfying burst of cool ranch goodness, with hints of garlic and onion. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 July 2025 Hauser’s jaded ranch foreman Rip Wheeler, who first came to John Dutton as a young boy on the run after killing his stepfather to protect his mother, learned how to be a cowboy from John, who treated him like a son. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for ranch
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farm
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  • In 1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on a farm in Bethel, New York.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • About an hour west of Twin Lake the next day, Gilbert sat with Sam Myers, who runs a fourth-generation wheat farm that the B2H line would transect.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Ranch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranch. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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