landowner
Example Sentences
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The fracking boom of the early 2010s in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota and Colorado brought with it tens of thousands of oil-field jobs and turned landowners into overnight millionaires.
One man’s biographical note stands out: that of Sheikh Sarkar, the patriarch of a clan that provides the “hereditary muscle” for a family of Punjabi landowners.
In mobile home parks, tenants lease their spaces from the landowners but own the homes placed on the land.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr Derby's next massive discovery came when the same landowner offered him another field to survey.
From BBC
Like other landowners in the area, it has been allowed to pump unlimited amounts from the aquifer, even as water levels have declined.
From Los Angeles Times
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