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[ranch] / ræntʃ /


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The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Animal services officials said the bird was moved to a private ranch in Northern California on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hidden Valley is selling a “spooky” black version of its ranch dressing for Halloween.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

For me, this is often cottage cheese ranch or a punchy vinaigrette — mostly because Future Me is considerably more enthusiastic about eating vegetables when there is something good to drag them through.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Hale found work as a cowboy on a ranch.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

Beef cattle still get born on thousands of independently owned ranches like theirs.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Park visitors, much to their delight, often encounter the horses while driving or hiking in the rolling, colorful Badlands where a young, future President Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

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

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

“Yak ranching is growing, but it’s still a niche market,” she said.

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 practice of ranching can be traced back about 75 years to the man who had a brilliant idea to combine mayonnaise, buttermilk, herbs and spices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols


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