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
  • The Western trend that swept denim fashion in 2024 flung the cowboy fit back into the spotlight.
    Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 13 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a warmth and a patina to Alief that Navis wanted to stress as a home base, but also some genuine cowboy, Southwest aesthetic that was part of the fun of other environments Mo ends up in.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 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
  • Many ranchers and feedlot operators are transparent about their practices, providing consumers with the information needed to make informed choices.
    Arturo Macias Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 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 3 Mar. 2025.

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