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baron

[bar-uhn] / ˈbær ən /
NOUN
nobleman
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Cut to Cruise as a bombastic oil baron in “Digger,” encased in prosthetics, sounding off with a Texas drawl and firing a finger gun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Digger sees Cruise transformed into a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess, and is directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In “Digger,” he returns to serious cinema caked in prosthetics playing an oil baron who causes a global meltdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

And at the heart of it is Alejandro Betancourt López, the Venezuelan oil baron who heads the Barbados-registered firm.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The baron sagged limply in his chair, his chin lodged on his chest.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The move comes after "furious backlash from her own cabinet colleagues and trade union barons", the paper says.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Other professors had the ear of cabinet ministers and press barons and sat on royal commissions that shaped this or that national policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Clark did not outline how a "brake pedal" for AI research and development could be created, but drew a parallel between AI and the oil boom and barons of the turn of the last century.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

“There used to be a lot of barons but now he’s the only guy,” Kuper said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

These two conservative barons had never yielded to Arthur, and they did not believe in any form of government except the rule of force.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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