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landowner

[land-oh-ner] / ˈlændˌoʊ nər /






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“The day a forest landowner becomes wealthy is the day he quits being a forest landowner,” Hopkins said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

A major landowner, especially in Tadcaster, the brewery refused to permit the construction of a temporary footbridge over the River Wharfe in Tadcaster on land it owned in 2016.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

The high-profile media tycoon was also a philanthropist and U.S. landowner; “I’ve won more than most.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Everybody held his breath while the landowner squinted his eyes and spat.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

More than a century later, she said experienced British Red Squirrel volunteers were now working with farmers and landowners to control grey squirrel populations near red colonies.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But then they remembered something the local council had told them: a museum had previously asked landowners in the area for permission to remove the tree.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

For decades, the Agriculture Department, in an effort to reduce the production of agricultural commodities, has handsomely paid landowners to convert agricultural lands to tree farms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

These landowners, largely in the Central Valley and the Central Coast, would no longer have to pay fees for the conversions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But Chicago’s landowners wanted profit, and at the city’s center, profit meant height.

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




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