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On Wednesday, billionaire oil baron Harold Hamm signed a preliminary deal to explore an undeveloped oil field in the state of Anzoátegui.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

Cruise was at CinemaCon earlier in the week to preview a very different film, Digger, in which he plays a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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

Let you think of beetles or honey, sweet baron, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” “Nonsense,” exclaimed the Wart.

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

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

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

The salt barons of Michigan decided to do something about that.

From Barron's ● May 2, 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