rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher But before that, the film is kind to Billy and shows the extenuating circumstances that led to his death — namely, his attempt to avenge the brutal murder of his employer, rancher John Tunstall, by a sheriff’s posse. Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2024 Earlier this month, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approved a plan to use hunter funds to compensate ranchers for forage eaten by elk. Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2024 In that film, John Wayne’s character, Wil Anderson, is a tough-as-nails old rancher about to head out on a cattle drive. Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Fischer, a cattle rancher, has touted an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, along with a new advertisement focused on her backing from former Rep. Tom Osborne, long-time coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 8 Oct. 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
  • Highlights include dogsledding, curling lessons with locals, dining with homesteaders, soaking in geothermal hot springs, snowshoeing on private land, and tea with reindeer herders.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • More than a few are on the fringes of society: homesteaders, back-to-the-land types, those who live off the grid and make a living teaching survival and primitive skills to others.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 June 2024
Noun
  • Other options include a display while driving that shows pedestrians as zombies, and bicyclists and motorcyclists as headless horsemen.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Du Bellay suffered from poor health throughout his life; the horseman’s skeleton, meanwhile, showed signs of chronic meningitis caused by bone tuberculosis, both of which were rare diseases at the time.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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