baron
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Digger sees Cruise transformed into a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess, and is directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Billionaire oil baron Harold Hamm told reporters Wednesday that he wouldn’t support an export ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Patriarch and oil baron Ed Doheny and wife Estelle acquired the home in 1901 and the Doheny family made it their home for nearly 60 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Not because Mullin, a wealthy plumbing baron from Oklahoma who’s served in Washington since 2013, has a distinguished legislative record.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026
There was nothing particularly likable about the baron, but she found him far preferable to his wife.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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In 1826, young Benjamin Disraeli popularized the word “millionaire” to describe the new industrial barons in his novel “Vivian Grey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Clark did not outline how a "brake pedal" for AI research and development could be created, but drew a parallel between AI and the oil boom and barons of the turn of the last century.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
By the late 19th century, the industrial revolution had produced business barons commanding disproportionate wealth, a newly conscious working class, trade unions, and socialist parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
“In her youth she was out hunting barons, har har! Caught one, too. Just my luck it was me.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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