ranch
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She also told the magazine she wishes to retire “and buy a ranch in Wyoming.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Unable to reach him by phone, colleagues in Atlanta asked the company’s Buenos Aires office to find someone to drive five hours to the ranch and deliver the latest data on falling sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The land is directly across the street from Matson’s ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
I took a bite of the buttery Texas toast and the crinkle-cut fries, then dipped them into the creamy, peppery Cane’s Sauce, which tasted something like pickled ranch.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
They were our neighbors with whom we shared the outhouse and garbage cans and the only ones at the ranch who had a phone.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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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
Ken Boulay, the CEO of the Turtle Island Restoration Network, said it’s time to move forward and imagine what the park could be like without cattle and private ranches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Since 1997, the United States has lost more than 450,000 cattle ranches.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
A conservationist, Turner owned and operated 13 ranches that were home to roughly 45,000 bison, Turner Enterprises said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Now he turned his head toward the mountains of the east, the Gabilans, and they were jolly mountains, with hill ranches in their creases, and with pine trees growing on the crests.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wegis and her husband, Jim, have been running their family farm since 1979 near lands where his ancestors homesteaded and ranched in the 1800s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
In the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched as a young man in the Badlands of what is now western North Dakota.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
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
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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
Namgyal worked in Alaska, New York City and finally Colorado, the place most resembling Nepal and the epicenter of yak ranching in the United States.
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
The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
In the dusty business of ranching he seemed always immaculate.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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