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entrepreneur

[ahn-truh-pruh-nur, -noor, ahn-truh-pruh-nœr] / ˌɑn trə prəˈnɜr, -ˈnʊər, ɑ̃ trə prəˈnœr /


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The house, with origins in the 15th Century, belonged to textile, fashion and retail entrepreneur Laura Ashley and her husband Bernard and owned by the family until his death in 2009.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

"The war has been palpable for a long time. It's knocking at our door," said Valeri Baronov, a 71-year-old entrepreneur from Krapets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Another potential contender for the Taiwan navy’s proposed $930 million drone-boat budget is Str8 Industries, a startup co-founded by tech entrepreneur Phil Ho and Bilal Awad, a retired U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The project took Silicon Valley by storm in the early 2010s, as young entrepreneur Holmes drew investors -- including Henry Kissinger, Carlos Slim and Rupert Murdoch -- to her project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Spock was not embarrassed by his pointy ears. entrepreneur.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Barnum-like qualities of certain larger-than-life entrepreneurs, you know, and you see that a lot in Silicon Valley .

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

That’s a familiar argument among technology entrepreneurs in almost every category — that what they’re doing is so danged important for the world that government should back off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, American entrepreneurs built, investors put their capital to work, and markets evolved faster than the rules governing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"If you offered most entrepreneurs a choice between a grant, with significant paperwork, milestone payments and continuous scrutiny, or a paying customer, I suspect they would always choose the customer," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

People harvested it like hay and fed it to cows; entrepreneurs marketed kudzu cereal, kudzu dog food, and kudzu ketchup.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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