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rodeo

[roh-dee-oh, roh-day-oh] / ˈroʊ diˌoʊ, roʊˈdeɪ oʊ /
NOUN
cowboy exhibition
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Art Bryson-Hare, who moved to Sundre 30 years ago from Nova Scotia, said he was uncertain about the rodeo committee’s decision to cancel the parade over the flag float.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

His family’s comfortable compound, the new trucks, the prize-winning rodeo bull he pampers in a pen behind his house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

As with all celebrity-driven vehicles, how much you enjoy this fantasy rodeo depends on how much you like these two, individually or as a team.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

After his death, his obituary paid tribute to his love of Montana—while also revealing the work he and Jones had been doing together to build a livestock auction company, as well as a rodeo.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

That was also where the food trucks would park, since we weren’t having a rodeo.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Between daily longhorn cattle drives, rodeos, live music, and plenty of low-key ways to relax, there’s always something going on.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

They later stop by the local church and the disco with Joseph Cerda Bañales, a bearded makeup artist who brandishes long stiletto nails to the rodeos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

They all attended London’s baby shower for her third child, and as a Houston native, she happily introduced the transplants to rodeos and the best places to buy cowboy boots for the kids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

He drifted into a Wyoming county fair, where he found a job working for an obscure firm that supplied decrepit horses to rodeos for use in relay races.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

“We’d seen my dad rodeo and my older brother rodeoed, so we knew we had the foundation,” said Holyan, the rodeo coach at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

He developed his love for the sport from his dad, who made sure his son practiced each day and rodeoed on weekends.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

“My husband, of course, he rodeoed his whole life,” Tammy says, staring out over the dirt ring, where an 11-year-old rider tried his best to reach eight seconds on a steer.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2018

He’d rodeoed when he was younger, in high school at Hurricane High and in college at Dixie in St. George.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2015

He’s rodeoed enough to know what broken bones feel like, and by 1938 he’s seen a lot of Saturday matinee westerns.

From Washington Post

Jonckowski had some experience as a youngster working on ranches, so she thought rodeoing would be worth a shot.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

But for now - he’s still roping, rodeoing and hoping to make it to the U.S.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2018

Teamwork and unity are so important in rodeoing, and in life, he says.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2018

“I can’t figure out for sure if I could stop rodeoing and just do ranching,” Cody said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2015

When Hetty drove back into the ranch yard an hour or so later, Johnny was rodeoing the farm tractor around the yard like a teen-ager, his face split in a wide grin.

From Make Mine Homogenized by Kelly Freas


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