ranger

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Recent Examples of ranger However, visitor centers, ranger programs, and maintenance services will be suspended in many places, while most of the agency’s approximately 16,000 employees are expected to be furloughed. AFAR Media, 1 Oct. 2025 In addition to hiking thousands of miles as a backcountry ranger, Kate has thru-hiked the Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail, John Muir Trail, and Southern Te Aroara, and enjoys doing yoga in the wilderness and in her tent. Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025 Check with a local ranger for special warnings. Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 Heskett was hired as a seasonal Colorado Parks and Wildlife ranger in March, roughly eight months after resigning from Lafayette. Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ranger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranger
Noun
  • Among those arrested were marines, former customs officials and businessmen.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Sugarcane is a very efficient ethanol crop, which isn't grown in the Amazon, and Brazil has a strong sustainability agenda in both energy and marine.
    Michaila Byrne, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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
  • All of them have been broken into by raiders over the centuries, their walls smashed or lids prised off despite once being locked shut with metal clasps.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dave Brubeck, already an accomplished jazz pianist, serving in a military band at a Riverside, California, base, was reassigned, trained, then shipped overseas as a replacement infantry rifleman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen.
    Jordan Rusche, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Crew can be assigned to the deck or boarding teams, with multiple slots for cannoneers, gunners, and boarders.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Artillery is a delicate skill, with cannoneers assessing topography, air pressure and even the weather at the top of the round’s parabolic arc before taking a shot.
    Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Tim Walz enlisted as an artilleryman in the Nebraska Army National Guard in 1981, the day after his 17th birthday.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In 2010, an attempt by Israel to stop another flotilla turned deadly after navy commandos boarded one boat, killing at least nine passengers and wounding 30 more.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In a plot that echoes that of their last film, The Beekeeper, Statham stars as an ex-commando who’s since turned a new leaf as a construction worker.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025

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