ranchero

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Recent Examples of ranchero Although the region’s agricultural history dates back to the 18th-century Spanish missionaries and, later, Mexican rancheros, modern winegrowing began in the 1960s with the establishment of Cilurzo Vineyards and Brookside Winery. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025 The two options include: Spicy ranchero sauce Avocado ranch sauce The crispy chicken taco costs $2.79 and the burrito starts at $5.49, though pricing may vary by location. Tanasia Kenney, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025 Dipping sauce flavors include avocado ranch and spicy ranchero. Maxwell Millington, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025 In a twist, Aguilar was competing in the best ranchero/mariachi album category with his son-in-law Christian Nodal. Leila Cobo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for ranchero
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Noun
  • Rue descends into crime, working with Nazis, the feds, and a Black cowboy in a drug plot that stems from her adolescent foibles with monotone drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly).
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • The Indians in my family were all cowboys and cowgirls.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
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
  • The charro is far from a modest vaquero, but a venerable caballero (gentleman) who has mastered the wrangling artistry of the frontier.
    Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There's plenty of history on vaqueros, or Mexican cowboys, in the West, but one demographic left their prints on Arizona history with their stories vastly untold: Black cowboys.
    Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In 1894, a rancher in Montrose looking at levels discovered the water in the Gunnison River was higher than the valley.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The rancher is wearing a hat with a Teskey’s Saddle Shop logo.
    Brayden Garcia May 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Accommodation is both modest and luxurious working estancias, including three nights at the all-inclusive Cerro Guido, a place steeped of gaucho culture.
    Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • From bright patterns to more neutral, everyday options, keep reading to find the 10 best gaucho and palazzo pants worth swapping your denim shorts for this summer, with prices starting as low as $16.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Junior vividly remembers his father struggling tirelessly to support the family as a campesino (agricultural worker), an electrician and more, while his mother, who had worked as a bank clerk in Mexico, cleaned hotel rooms despite her arthritis.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Proudly sporting the pava—the campesino hat of the island’s rural working class—Benito drags that symbol into every song, visual, and public appearance, parading around the world as both patron saint and chronicler of Puerto Rican music, art, aesthetics, and politics.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 2 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Residents and visitors will line the streets to watch cowhands from various ranches herd more than 30 Longhorns through town, a tradition dating back to when the parade was a downtown cattle drive.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There are plenty of places to take a horse, with experienced cowhands to guide the way.
    Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 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 7 Jun. 2026.

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