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rancher

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as in cattleman

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Recent Examples of rancher Season 2 picks up six months after the first, with rancher Staten fighting to reclaim his legacy after being unseated as trustee of his family's ranch, while Quinn returns from a New York opportunity only to complicate their reunion further. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 Clayton Tucker, a rancher and the Democratic nominee for state agriculture commissioner, said his campaign events are consumed by talk of data centers. — Marc Levy, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Staten provided the missing link between his father and Yancy, who told the Double K rancher about the plan to trick his father. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 July 2026 To ask a rancher, or for that matter a beef processor, to do that strains their human compassion for people paying higher prices for food. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for rancher

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The establishment celebrates its nearly 70 years of Vegas connections, from Mafia chieftains (The Mob Room dining space) to Elvis to the Rat Pack to gamblers and cattlemen.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
Kirk Wilbur, vice president of government affairs cattlemen’s association, said the organization is concerned about that division of funding — especially if funding is reduced.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026

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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

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Haushofer’s The Wall prompts readers to reflect on this question as an unnamed protagonist becomes a forced—though not unhappy—homesteader, cutoff from society by an invisible barrier.

— Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 July 2026
In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

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