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[ranch] / ræntʃ /


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The ranch where she lives in Burnet County northwest of Austin, Texas, could be bisected by one of the high-voltage power lines proposed to crisscross the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

So she and her family decamped to a ranch in Montana, where they lived in a log cabin and rode horses while riding out the global pandemic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The criminal charge came a week after the Pasadena Humane Society announced that the rare white fowl had recovered from its injuries and was relocated to a private ranch in Northern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

George W. Bush spent as much time as possible at the West Texas ranch he bought just before assuming the presidency.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

As Annabelle runs Highway 12, alongside miles of ranch fencing, and the occasional cattle barn and farmhouse, she tries to envision it.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

The art of making papel picado was born on ranches outside Huixcolotla.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Shallow groundwater stores supported fruit orchards, alfalfa fields, livestock ranches and, at one point, a water park and dozens of manmade lakes where people could fish, sail and water ski.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Jim Locke, 50, who ranches near Miami, Texas, has been a volunteer for 24 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

As those ranches disappeared, so did the local economies that made America’s cattle country strong.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

“That is why they call these the ranches of the Agua Negra,” my father explained.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

This weekend, the delegation from Hidden Valley has been mobilized to the New York area—because anything can be ranched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Park visitors, much to their delight, often encounter the horses while driving or hiking in the rolling, colorful Badlands where a young, future President Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

These ancient wetlands had been plundered for timber, then ranched, and finally acquired by the state in the 1970s to nurture back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

When Letseoma was growing up in this house, her father had farmed and ranched and had owned horses, cattle, sheep, and chickens.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021

As Grandpa got older he ranched less and farmed more, until one day he stopped farming.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The ranching family in the story isn’t any luckier, wrongfooted by bad love affairs, feuds and the whims of disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

“It’s pushing many people completely out of ranching, and many people have had to significantly reduce their herd sizes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Yak ranching is growing, but it’s still a niche market,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

When we looked at beef ranching, we learned how grasses and herbivores formed a partnership over millions of years of evolution.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan


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