ranger

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Recent Examples of ranger Hawktober at the county parks began seven years ago, when Gonzalez joined a fellow ranger to host an event focused on raptors and owls. Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025 Anglers taking a grass carp should register their catch with the lakes ranger at (479) 876-9581 or the fisheries staff, (479) 855-5068. Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025 Parks and Recreation is budgeted to hire two part-time or one full-time ranger, but those roles remain vacant months into Brown’s tenure — something officials hope the new ordinance change will help address. Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025 Guests can take a tram tour of the park, one of the largest sites in the World Birding Center network, or attend one of the many ranger programs about the nature and history of the area. Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ranger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranger
Noun
  • Hazardous marine and beach conditions continue today as a cold front pushes through the area later this morning and Hurricane Melissa progresses northwards in the western Atlantic.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The unidentified men were working as subcontractors at a jobsite at the Rover Street marine dock in Everett when a crane collapsed.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 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
  • One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Sitting on a waterproof Vibram commando sole, the upper of the shoe is crafted in suede in Fracap’s headquarters in Puglia, Italy.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Ranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranger. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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