ranchero

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Recent Examples of ranchero At Bahía Agua Verde, looking for birds, seals, dolphins, and whales is on the agenda along with a mule ride and visit with a local ranchero. Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2024 There were Zoot suits, ranchero plaids and jeans, and track suits of the kind Dominican macho men wear around the city. Vogue Runway, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2024 The foundation of Todos Santos is the quintessential ranchero culture, as is the way across all of Baja. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023 Except for a short period of pre-9/11 ranchero friendship between Presidents Vicente Fox and George W. Bush, both nations were distant neighbors caught in a love-hate relationship. Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ranchero
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranchero
Noun
  • Elvis as a cowboy, a soldier, a surfer in nothing but his shorts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There are also fantastic roles to play, like pirates, knights, cowboys, spies, princesses and mermaids.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 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
  • When the herd grew unmanageable, Mexican-Spanish vaqueros (cowboys) were brought in from California to teach locals how to rope and herd cattle.
    Sophie-Claire Hoeller, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The two entered the ring waving Mexican and Peruvian flags dressed as vaqueros.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The National Western Stock Show brings bison and ranchers to the area.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025
  • With the ranchers’ path to compensation back open, the Court declined to rule on the big question of whether the Takings Clause on its own grants the right to be heard in federal court.
    Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With its European architecture, rich textile history and cultural touchstones like the gaucho, there is plenty of inspiration for designers to pull from.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This is a look from my 2002 graduation collection (above center), which was inspired by traditional gaucho clothing (above left).
    Emilia Petrarca, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On May 12, a group of rural campesinos staged a peaceful protest to draw attention to threats of land eviction.
    Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2025
  • The portraiture of a Black woman, along with the straw hat (an item synonymous with campesino iconography), brought together several concepts, and grew to become Catlett’s most renowned image in the eyes of many.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the ranch is proactively using drones equipped with speakers and bright lights as stand-in cowhands, WSJ reported.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates Clint Eastwood portrayed Rowdy Yates, the young cowhand who eventually matures into a leader.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Ranchero.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranchero. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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