rancher

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Recent Examples of rancher Farmers and ranchers can also be compensated for tending to ecosystems in addition to growing food, buffering their income from the vagaries of extreme weather and trade wars. Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 25 May 2025 These losses can cost farmers and ranchers between $69,000 and $162,000 per wolf, according to reporting from the Palm Springs Desert Sun, part of the USA TODAY Network. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 22 May 2025 Siskiyou and Lassen County leaders are calling on the state to do something about the economic toll the wolves are taking on ranchers, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife recently approved stronger harassment methods, including assaulting the animals with noise from drones. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025 That's why the new trade agreements announced by the Trump administration this week are such a big deal for farmers and ranchers. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for rancher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rancher
Noun
  • Our farmers, cattlemen and ranchers are THRILLED with these tariffs, as well.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Regeneration, Not Extraction A few decades ago, Will Harris, a fourth-generation cattleman, looked at his family’s farm and realized something was off.
    Steven Fabos, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • To live as 1880s homesteaders, each family will have to navigate life without electricity or running water throughout the eight episodes.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Most of our neighbors were farmers, loggers, or homesteaders.
    John Klar, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The four horsemen of Big Tech — Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft — all report earnings this week, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That frontier epic, set at the turn of the 20th century, followed three horsemen who set out across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Rancher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancher. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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