rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher The model appeared in the penultimate episode of Yellowstone playing the love interest of the show's co-creator, Taylor Sheridan, who also appears as an actor portraying the Texan rancher, Travis Wheatley. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 Farmers and ranchers who often experience much of the pigs' destruction can hunt or hire someone to hunt the animals without a license on private land, with no limits to how many can be killed. Landon Mion, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025 Most are descendants of animals that escaped from Spanish explorers, the United States Calvary, Indigenous People, or ranchers and survived to breed. Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024 Beyond the kids’ club, children of all ages can enjoy unique activities such as glow-in-the-dark hiking, a bee-keeping class, rancher lessons, farm animal meet-and-greets, and scavenger hunts. Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 28 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
  • 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
  • In Mexico, a charro is a horseman from the countryside with a history dating back to the 16th century.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Not only with beauty, of course; impatient rulers liked that Vajrayana promised enlightenment in one lifetime, as opposed to the usual Buddhist dozens, and Kublai Khan spread its teachings as far as his horsemen could ride.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025

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