baron

Set on 5.3 acres overlooking the Ottawa River, 24 Sussex was built in 1868 by a lumber baron and member of Parliament as a gift to his third wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

His eponymous company, which the Gilded Age lumber baron founded with partners in 1900, pioneered logging techniques to harvest the Pacific Northwest’s verdant slopes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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

There might go another baron at full tilt after some dragon or other, and bump! down he might come, while the horse cantered away.

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

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 used to be a lot of barons but now he’s the only guy,” Kuper said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

The illicit payoffs were as yet unknown to the public, and as the barons moved toward the front of the Million Dollar Elm, they were treated as princes of capitalism, the crowd parting before them.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann