as in farms
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock
lives on a cattle ranch in Texas that's as big as the whole state of Rhode Island
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Recent Examples of ranches
Located amidst horse ranches in the city’s southernmost stretch, the garden spans the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park with more than 200 plots, including 10 quarter-acre farms leased for $324 to $1,600 per year.
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Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
The driest state in the country is often hit by droughts, but that hasn’t stopped developers from buying up ranches and farmland to build homes or businesses.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
There are a thousand or so sanctioned rodeos every year around the country—the pro kind can offer million-dollar purses—but there are also many more smaller rodeos held every week on family ranches, 4-H fairgrounds, or tribal land.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
And besides, the sale money went to a good cause, the boys’ ranches.
—Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Sometimes the most fruitful foraging spots are private ranches, farms or backyards.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Encircled by mountains and dotted with working ranches, this pastoral basin has become ground zero for California’s fraught and complicated relationship with its resurgent population of gray wolves.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In March, the agency cut more than $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase goods from local farms and ranches.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Morro Bay was once a bustling port city that primarily dealt in the shipment of dairy and beef from the local ranches in the area.
—Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
The driest state in the country is often hit by droughts, but that hasn’t stopped developers from buying up ranches and farmland to build homes or businesses.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
There are a thousand or so sanctioned rodeos every year around the country—the pro kind can offer million-dollar purses—but there are also many more smaller rodeos held every week on family ranches, 4-H fairgrounds, or tribal land.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
And besides, the sale money went to a good cause, the boys’ ranches.
—Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Sometimes the most fruitful foraging spots are private ranches, farms or backyards.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Encircled by mountains and dotted with working ranches, this pastoral basin has become ground zero for California’s fraught and complicated relationship with its resurgent population of gray wolves.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In March, the agency cut more than $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase goods from local farms and ranches.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Morro Bay was once a bustling port city that primarily dealt in the shipment of dairy and beef from the local ranches in the area.
—Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranches
farms
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Many of the farms, which are traditionally passed down to men within a family, have been abandoned.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Oct. 2025
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What seemed like a win-win—cheap sewage disposal, free nutrients for farms—was actually toxic.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Ranches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranches. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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