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Cut to Cruise as a bombastic oil baron in “Digger,” encased in prosthetics, sounding off with a Texas drawl and firing a finger gun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Alejandro González Iñárritu cast the Hollywood star as a bombastic Texas oil baron in ‘Digger,’ bringing the actor back to art-house cinema after almost two decades focused largely on action blockbusters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

When no one accosted me, I sheathed the swords and walked about like a guest until I found the baron.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

GNP, a hedge against AI robots stealing all of the remaining sports jobs, but maybe also a rickety business propped up by advertising from gambling barons and their crazy cousins in the prediction markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

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

There were so many distinguished-looking men in the park these days—statesmen, princes, architects, and the city’s industrial barons.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson