rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Robert Redford directed this 1998 drama about a mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) trying to help her daughter overcome trauma from a riding accident by bringing her to Montana, where Redford's rancher has a gift for healing horses and human hearts. Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 Both center on the children of John Dutton, the Montana rancher and politician played by Kevin Costner on Yellowstone. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025 Officers said — and video showed — the rancher moved his hands into his jacket after exiting his truck immediately following the crash. Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 7 Sep. 2025 Chad Raines is a rancher from Texas. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • The actors tells the stories of the deceased, including cattleman and 6666 ranch owner Samuel Burk Burnett, and the city’s first Black policeman, Hagar Tucker.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The city was originally named Jernigan after a couple of cattlemen who originally settled here.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 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
  • The larger piece found its way to the Esperance Museum, but the smaller piece remained undiscovered until the curious stockman uncovered it.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • That period also saw her star in Sergio Leone’s Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), as the female protagonist, widowed homesteader Jill Mcbain, alongside Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Angie Katsanevas, who loves brand names, beauty and micromanaging her family, swaps lives with off-the-grid homesteader and former Mormon Lindsay Flake, whose family lives without electricity, running water and rules.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, their only aim is to protect themselves, which is precisely how the second horseman arrives.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Ride horseback with local gauchos (skilled horsemen) near the quaint towns of Cachi or Cafayate.
    Carola Fresno, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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