rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Carver is bringing a group of ranchers together in the Pacific Northwest to help grow the regenerative wool supply. Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024 But during the winter when food becomes scarce, ranchers supplement their diets. Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2024 But wolves also feast on cattle and other livestock, which can threaten the livelihood of ranchers. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024 Her sweet idiot of a neighbor stood on the unlit front porch of his dilapidated brick rancher as the sun dipped below the horizon and shadows stretched to swallow him. Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rancher 
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Noun
  • Together, almost 200 lawsuits allege that everyone from cattlemen to meat wholesalers and distributors to end users like McDonald’s have lost billions of dollars because they were either forced to pay too much for beef or were paid too little for their cattle.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Hurd's haul includes cash infusions from the Koch brothers and other conservative PACs like the Mainstreet Partnership, and the national cattlemen's and automobile dealers' associations.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
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
  • Just as Darwin cultivated stockmen and pigeon breeders for their familiarity with the mysterious laws of inheritance, biologists interested in rattlesnakes have beaten a path to Martin’s door.
    Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • In the early 1990s, a stockman noticed cattle drinking at a place where no water should have been available.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In the nineteenth century, the Jacksonians combined a strong aversion to government debt with demands that the government's most valuable asset (title to the vast public lands of the West) be transferred to homesteaders at no cost.
    Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2011
Noun
  • The museum would later acquire and display the nine-by-nine-foot Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, depicting a black horseman in camouflage and Timberlands against a background with tiny sperm swimming throughout — a recurring theme in his early work.
    Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That depth of bench is the main reason that Thoroughbred horsemen from around the world are so keen to come Stateside to test their luck come November.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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