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ownership

[oh-ner-ship] / ˈoʊ nərˌʃɪp /


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Two years later, Time Warner doled out an even richer $8.3-billion deal to the Dodgers, which at the time were under new ownership — Walter and his partners with Guggenheim Baseball Management.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

A complication: Venezuela’s prominent Cisneros family asserts rightful ownership of some of the same oil fields that Pacific Coast is negotiating to operate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Taalas makes the case that it has a lower cost of ownership than a GPU on a four-year refresh cycle, even if the Taalas chips have to be replaced every year, according to EE Times.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

The showdown between the first family of the Lakers comes at a time when family ownership is increasingly rare in high-level professional sports, as franchises become astronomically valuable—thanks in part to visionaries like Jerry Buss.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

These losses, added to the $150,000 cost of moving it and the financial damage done to Ferris’s steel-inspection company by the continuing depression, caused Ferris to sell most of his ownership of the wheel.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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