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[ranch] / ræntʃ /


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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

On YouTube, the very same platform hosting Duffy’s vapid post-vacation slideshow, content abounds showing soccer lovers’ appreciation for our fast-food joints, rowdy dance clubs and ranch dressing.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

At a ranch high up in the Sawtooth mountain range, students sat on hardback chairs in the middle of a mountain meadow.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Located in Mountain Center, Calif., the ranch appears to have undergone multiple upgrades during Paul’s ownership—with the description noting that the YouTuber is offering “most of the furnishings, ranch vehicles and equipment with the purchase.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

On breaks, Courtney, Nia, Destinee, and I would go for walks around the ranch to see the animals: donkeys, horses, camels, chickens, and peacocks, all roaming freely on the property.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

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

The Sullivan Canyon home was inspired by the architecture of classic California ranches including San Ysidro Ranch, where John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy honeymooned.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

“They put them at the gates of ranches so cows can’t get out. They can’t walk on them.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

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

His father and uncles were in the cattle business, but it was soon apparent that young Larry, who was slight and frail, had no future in ranching.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Grandpa’s ranching horses were the stuff of legend.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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