rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Tractor Supply, which sells home and garden supplies and clothing to farmers and ranchers, in June ended a DEI program that had aimed to help put people of color in management roles and boost funding to education programs for Black Americans. Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025 Loma Mar’s diverse community includes immigrant families, traditional ranchers and billionaires, as well as artists, musicians and families who have lived in the area for generations. Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025 The idea was to keep farmers and ranchers in business by saving them thousands of dollars each year. Josh Salman, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025 For the farmer, rancher, or woodland manager who needs 365-day access to the unpaved and unimproved, these are add-ons to an already useful workhorse. New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rancher
Noun
  • One morning in early January, the ranch’s owner, Martín Wall, a forty-five-year-old cattleman and a seventh-generation Texan, showed me around.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Houston Tye Hinton, resident stockman at the Anchor 7 Cattle Growers Association, is winding down after a long day of branding cattle.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • The horsemen of the SaaS apocalypse are productivity gains, structural changes in software and investor sentiment.
    Ron Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The cavalcade of galloping horsemen is crudely fragmented across several nations.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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