- present participle of ranch.
ranching
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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
Talbot said from the federal to the local level, everyone in the ranching community has been talking about the arrival of screwworm and how to combat it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Larry McMurtry was born into a Texas ranching family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
“In the fifties, when my father was ranching, it was two or three years old. Now we get there at fourteen to sixteen months.”
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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