ranchero

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Recent Examples of ranchero The foundation of Todos Santos is the quintessential ranchero culture, as is the way across all of Baja. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023 Except for a short period of pre-9/11 ranchero friendship between Presidents Vicente Fox and George W. Bush, both nations were distant neighbors caught in a love-hate relationship. Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023 The music is a rich, melodic and lovely blend of Mexican bolero and ranchero folk music, and three mariachi musician-singers are onstage for the entire 75-minute show. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023 Then add layers of flavors and textures: radishes, fresh herbs, slices of avocado, fresh ranchero cheese from Aguascalientes. Jorge Valencia Mariano Fernandez, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ranchero
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranchero
Noun
  • Instead, stabilizers are cowboys tasked with wrangling a very specific herd: water.
    Ali Bouzari, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • How many movie cowboys would admit that? ‘Shirkers’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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
  • When the herd grew unmanageable, Mexican-Spanish vaqueros (cowboys) were brought in from California to teach locals how to rope and herd cattle.
    Sophie-Claire Hoeller, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The two entered the ring waving Mexican and Peruvian flags dressed as vaqueros.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • However, there was significant pushback to the initiative from ranchers and farmers who feared that wolves would eat their livestock.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the most outspoken critics have been ranchers, who’ve already lost dozens of animals to the predators, and big-game hunters and outfitters, who worry about the effects those wolves will have on deer and elk populations.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With its European architecture, rich textile history and cultural touchstones like the gaucho, there is plenty of inspiration for designers to pull from.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This is a look from my 2002 graduation collection (above center), which was inspired by traditional gaucho clothing (above left).
    Emilia Petrarca, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The portraiture of a Black woman, along with the straw hat (an item synonymous with campesino iconography), brought together several concepts, and grew to become Catlett’s most renowned image in the eyes of many.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The consequences were devastating for Andean campesinos of Indigenous descent, who had been a strong base of support for the new president.
    Stephanie McNulty & Sarah Chartock / Made by History, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.
    Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Ranchero.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranchero. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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