- present participle of ranch.
ranching
Example Sentences
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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
“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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