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baron

[bar-uhn] / ˈbær ən /
NOUN
nobleman
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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

And at the heart of it is Alejandro Betancourt López, the Venezuelan oil baron who heads the Barbados-registered firm.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

I’ve pointed to the example of Sam Insull, the 1920s utility baron who electrified the economy but ended up broke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The baroness and her husband, the baron, were close friends of the Ashtons, although even Lady Constance found the baroness a chore to be around.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Other professors had the ear of cabinet ministers and press barons and sat on royal commissions that shaped this or that national policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

There he meets with his chosen mark: Perla Hildegarda Inclán Arnao, a middle-aged spinster from a fallen family of coffee barons whose reserved nature doesn’t jibe with her passionate letters.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

When the old King came to his throne it had been an England of armoured barons, and of famine, and of war.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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