rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha is a rebellious, tough-as-nails rancher who makes a meager living rescuing horses and training them to resell them at auction. Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 13 Aug. 2025 In their sentencing filing, prosecutors said Gonzalez Garcia was far from a cattle rancher, telling the judge he was captured on wiretaps talking about having a warehouse operator murdered to keep him from talking to authorities. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025 The Disney Wilderness Preserve was created when the Walt Disney Company purchased over 8,000 acres of wetlands from a cattle rancher in the 1990s to offset environmental impacts from its theme parks and hotels. Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025 The rancher compared the meat to a beef steak or a burger with a more robust flavor. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • The city was originally named Jernigan after a couple of cattlemen who originally settled here.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
  • In the November 2024 general election, McGruder defeated Marion Republican Robert Thorne Jr., who is a landscaper and cattleman, by a margin of 4,814 to 4,691, according to the secretary of state's website.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 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
  • Americans who buy a house tend to think like homesteaders.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The original maze with a soundtrack composed by the Grammy-winning guitarist will drop visitors onto a rural farm where scarecrows seek vengeance on homesteaders for their past sins against Mother Nature.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 July 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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