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[ranch] / ræntʃ /


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Settlement critics noted that the pact meant that ranch employees, many of them Latinos with moderate incomes, lost their homes along with the ranch owners.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

In the beginning of 2025, Taylor Olin had decided she’d seen enough of Echo Park and decided to relocate to a cozy ranch up in Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The couple have listed their midcentury modern split-level ranch in for $1.499 million after transforming the property into a sustainability-minded retreat that blends original architectural details with eco-conscious upgrades and a productive backyard garden.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

However, according to the property’s listing, they have now decided to move closer to the action of Aspen and no longer have a need for their ranch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Him and the other fellow I could see riding east, but they’d need an army of fence spotters to patrol even one ranch.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

“God bless her. She let me go out and live on ranches and run with other people to get away from him.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

Some dairy farms send calves out to third-party calf ranches for rearing.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

He donated his roughly 80,000-acre McGinley Ranch in Nebraska to the nonprofit and said in the future, he would consider donating four more Nebraska ranches spanning 445,000 acres.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Some time back the other members of the squad that walked so smartly from the school had turned into the various little canyons and taken the wagon roads to their own home ranches.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

Making beef affordable again will only happen by rebuilding the domestic U.S. ranching base.

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

Larry McMurtry was born into a Texas ranching family.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

But the New Mexico State Land Commission cancelled the leases in September 2019 after the office determined that Epstein had used the tract as a privacy buffer - not for ranching or agriculture.

From BBC Feb. 19, 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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