ranchero

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Recent Examples of ranchero 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 The Mexican artist Nodal has two nominations for best ranchero/mariachi album and best regional song. Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for ranchero 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranchero
Noun
  • Its 45 larger-than-life figures—cowboys on horseback, women riding sidesaddle, and lots of covered wagons— make up one of the world’s largest bronze sculpture installations.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
  • That was my experience at Rebuilding, in which Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s just lost the family farm in a massive wildfire, and who’s struggling to put his life back together.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Jan. 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
  • The two entered the ring waving Mexican and Peruvian flags dressed as vaqueros.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • One of the oldest houses in the town for example, now towers over a new Starbucks, while cowboy boot-wearing fashionistas from Mexico City (about a four-hour drive away) hang out in the parish square next to actual vaqueros celebrating their daughters’ quinceañeras at the church.
    Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Read more When wolves kill livestock, should Colorado grant ranchers anonymity for compensation claims?
    The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2025
  • For example, the USAID Food for Peace Program, which provides emergency food assistance around the world, purchased 1.1 million metric tons of food from U.S. farmers and ranchers in fiscal year 2023.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One devoted father teaches his son the ways of the gaucho, and is lonely when the kid returns to school.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2024
  • With no more than 10 guests at a time, each can join the farming team for a night of local gaucho guitar music on the Gallie family's 27,000-hectare estate, with its 8,500 merino sheep and 400 Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The only way to keep vallenato alive is for the campesino to not be displaced.
    Daniella Tello-Garzon, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.
    Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022

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“Ranchero.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranchero. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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