landowner
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Near the Pee Dee River that runs through the Carolinas, George began working for a white landowner until, he recalls, a “hue and cry found me out.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
They no longer manage demolition, but they are the titleholder to publicly-owned land, and are still the largest single landowner in the city of Detroit.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
The park authority said it had contacted stakeholders, including SSE as the landowner, local businesses and its own destination management group - which includes tourism businesses across the park - about the closure.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
We handed most of the potatoes over to the landowner in exchange for our wages, but some we boiled into soup, which we ate every night for dinner.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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