as in cowpoke
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range
cowboys were rounding up the cattle for branding
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Recent Examples of cowboy
The deeply American cowboy series returns on November 10.
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Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
During six terms in office, Gates earned a reputation as a powerful politician who was a cowboy at heart.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
In the film, Josh played a rodeo cowboy, while Lauren portrayed the love interest who captures his heart.
—Karla Renic, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Bingham recognizes this, too, and says that any fame or fortune is a happy accident for a singing cowboy whose music just happened to catch on.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
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Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
During six terms in office, Gates earned a reputation as a powerful politician who was a cowboy at heart.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
In the film, Josh played a rodeo cowboy, while Lauren portrayed the love interest who captures his heart.
—Karla Renic, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Bingham recognizes this, too, and says that any fame or fortune is a happy accident for a singing cowboy whose music just happened to catch on.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cowboy
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Younger kids can choose from a selection of small plates portioned for cowpokes.Outside Online, Outside Online, 17 July 2024
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His fictional protagonists have included ornery cowpokes and professors of esoterica.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
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On a recent morning, one cowhand lounged in dusty jeans.Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
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The Supreme Court had already decided that yes, indeed, Texas — which spent a hundred million buckaroos a year on California produce — could throw up its own quarantine on Golden State goods.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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The group disqualifies him, however, after researchers discover his buckaroo abilities are limited to wearing expensive Stetson hats and tripping on his lasso.Gustavo ArellanoColumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
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Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 May 2024
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McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
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Her sweet idiot of a neighbor stood on the unlit front porch of his dilapidated brick rancher as the sun dipped below the horizon and shadows stretched to swallow him.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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Water supplies in the area are already reduced due to nearby mining and prolonged drought, and many in this remote area of western Arizona, home to ranchers, small farmers and Native peoples, fear water will be further impacted by breaching underground aquifers that feed the springs and streams.Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
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Other options include a display while driving that shows pedestrians as zombies, and bicyclists and motorcyclists as headless horsemen.Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2024
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Du Bellay suffered from poor health throughout his life; the horseman’s skeleton, meanwhile, showed signs of chronic meningitis caused by bone tuberculosis, both of which were rare diseases at the time.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Cowboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowboy. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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