Thesaurus results for COWBOYS

cowboys

noun

plural of cowboy

as in cowhands

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 cowboys The first co-write between Henley and Frey was a bona fide cowboy ballad if cowboys kept grand pianos around campfires. — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026 Immediately after the Civil War, Smith said, cowboys drove millions of longhorns from southern Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipment to northern markets. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026 Inventing fake cowboys with drama would be disrespectful to the real cowboys who live drama-free at the Four Sixes to this day, according to Sheridan. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026 As with Christmas, the logistical wrangling can outweigh the enjoyment, at least for the cowboys. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 Throughout the afternoon, parents pointed toward competitors and explained that Black cowboys and cowgirls have long been part of the American West. — Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2026 Introspection is hardly foreign to country music, but Langley’s coolly reflective approach stands out in a genre defined by social collisions—by scenes of cowboys and cowgirls settling scores. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026 Inspired by the wild, wild West, this collection is full of skeletal cowboys and twisted desert motifs. — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2026 Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026

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There are plenty of places to take a horse, with experienced cowhands to guide the way.

— Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Now, the ranch is proactively using drones equipped with speakers and bright lights as stand-in cowhands, WSJ reported.

— Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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