baron

Example Sentences

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“Ease” survived, but Abbe soon sold the work to railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington to help relieve his financial difficulties.

From The Wall Street Journal

Focused economic pressure from China just might persuade the party barons to deliver a strong behind-the-scenes message to their leader.

From The Wall Street Journal

With his bald pate, dark-framed glasses and knowing demeanor, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the world’s media barons and Manhattan potentates.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is believed they may be descended from indigenous people who fled into the deep jungle in the late 19th Century, escaping rampant exploitation and widespread massacres by so-called "rubber barons".

From BBC

The greed and avarice of media barons are complicit in the government’s move toward one ruling party with no dissent.

From Salon