baron
Example Sentences
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Mr McCann told the Today programme: "It's quite obvious that press barons can meet the prime minister, but the people who have suffered at the hands of them can't."
From BBC
"Most farmers are not wealthy land barons; they live hand to mouth on tiny and sometimes non-existent profit margins."
From BBC
“Ease” survived, but Abbe soon sold the work to railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington to help relieve his financial difficulties.
There was nothing particularly likable about the baron, but she found him far preferable to his wife.
From Literature
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
