rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher The series stars Josh Duhamel as Staten Kirkland, legacy rancher, alongside Kelly’s Quinn, talented pianist and owner of a lavender farm and Gracie’s Dance Hall. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025 Flaming Star, based on the 1958 book Flaming Lance by Clair Huffaker, follows Presley as Pacer Burton, a man struggling with his identity after being born to a White rancher and his Kiowa wife. Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025 He was married in 1980 to Barbara Gail Lee, and the couple lived in Wink, 30 miles east of Mentone, where Skeet worked as a pumper and a rancher. Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 This can mitigate damage to the rancher’s animals and livelihood. Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
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Noun
  • Its namesake, cattleman Oliver Loving, was shot by a band of raiders during a cattle drive in 1866, and died of shock a few days later after a doctor didn’t amputate his gangrenous arm.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Yellowstone's series finale, which aired on Dec. 15, paid tribute to renowned horseman Bob Avila and tied up several loose ends for the series.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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