rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher County investigators discovered that 32 types of PFAS were in the ranchers’ soil and water. Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Dec. 2024 The rancher reported their findings to the Navajo County Sheriff's Office and the Arizona Department of Agriculture Livestock Division, who, working in tandem, conducted a lengthy investigation. Olivia Rose, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024 Building a biological barrier across the Darien Gap costs $15 million a year, but collectively saves much more for the continent’s ranchers to the north—the USDA estimates the US cattle industry alone benefits by more than $900 million a year. Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024 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 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
  • 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
  • For those who feel strongly about landlords saving money, supers getting their sleep or drivers finding a place to park, trash containerization arrived like the first horseman of the apocalypse.
    Christopher Maag, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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