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[ranch] / ræntʃ /


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For me, this is often cottage cheese ranch or a punchy vinaigrette — mostly because Future Me is considerably more enthusiastic about eating vegetables when there is something good to drag them through.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Outside, the ranch is surrounded by lush landscaping, while a tranquil reflection pond adds to its secluded, countryside atmosphere—despite the estate’s location in the heart of Los Angeles.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

He also broke horses and rode bucking broncos in ranch rodeos.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In June, he flew to Argentina to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his family’s ranch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

This strange realm of pointy peaks, rocky caves and soaring condors is California’s youngest and smallest national park, set in the underappreciated middle of California, where farms, ranches and vineyards blanket the valleys and hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

Watch the video above to explore how the myth of the American cowboy became a global obsession, from the ranches of Oklahoma to a Tokyo honky-tonk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

These ranches once supported families, small towns, local stores and restaurants, feed suppliers, truckers, veterinarians, and entire rural communities.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

What came out was a hodgepodge of factories, primitive huts, and fabulous ranches owned by evil tycoons who had pretty daughters.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

Mormons later farmed and ranched on the lush landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2020

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

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Others at the town hall, however, expressed fury that the two remaining ranching families were now trying to upend the deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Just within the past two centuries, cattle and sheep brought in for ranching — and then later elk and deer for hunting — ate up the island’s shrubs, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The freezing-cold winter had killed three-quarters of all the cattle that roamed the Badlands, and ranching turned out to be a money-losing venture for him.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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