rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher In the Centers for Health, Work & Environment, where I am affiliated, multiple national and international studies are focused on agriculture workers, farm owners and ranchers. Katherine Ann James, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2025 Scotty Dunton, who was identified as the rancher, per KPNX, said that his dog Buford had discovered the child while guarding his property. David Chiu, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025 Her character, Quinn O'Grady, is caught in a love triangle between two ranchers, Davis Collins (Eoin Machen) and Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Knocking down barriers To help farmers and ranchers make the transition to regenerative practices with confidence, Cargill provides support through a combination of financial incentives, inputs and on-the-ground training from expert agronomists. Pilar Cruz, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • Our farmers, cattlemen and ranchers are THRILLED with these tariffs, as well.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Regeneration, Not Extraction A few decades ago, Will Harris, a fourth-generation cattleman, looked at his family’s farm and realized something was off.
    Steven Fabos, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 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
  • Most of our neighbors were farmers, loggers, or homesteaders.
    John Klar, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The first generation of homesteaders practiced full self-sufficiency out of necessity, Proctor said.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 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

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