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landowner

[land-oh-ner] / ˈlændˌoʊ nər /






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Caricom Reparations Commission chair Hilary Beckles has repeatedly spoken out about ex-Conservative Party lawmaker and UK landowner Richard Drax, 68, whose ancestors established Drax Hall Estate in Barbados in the mid-17th century.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Sutherland-born landowner, Gen Sir Hector Munro of Novar, had the folly built and paid for it with prize money and pensions he earned serving with the British Army in India.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He got his political inspiration from seeing his father and other loggers “standing up to a wealthy landowner who thought he could squeeze them for more.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“When I got up there, my landowner was already in active firefighting mode,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

He told us about an hacendado, a large landowner, who used his company store to keep his father and other peasants in a state of endless debt.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

For years, he said, he’d been promising tribes and landowners their concerns would be addressed as the law requires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Federal agencies are also pursuing proposed land exchanges with private landowners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

She said there was "substantial evidence" from the Department for Infrastructure on the issue of how the road would affect landowners and their human rights.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

During the project, the trust said it would work with landowners to trial "small-scale habitat interventions" to identify those which work well while gaining a better understanding of the species' behaviour and needs.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

True Belle, of course, would have known everything right away because, first of all, nobody could hide much in Wordsworth and nothing at all could be hidden in the Big Houses of its landowners.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison


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