businessman
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He had been a respected businessman from Cheshire, running his own cheese company.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The British businessman told the Press Association he had to "surrender" the weapon he travelled with as he did not have the right documents to correctly import it.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
One American businessman has spotted a potential commercial opening: sealskins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
That businessman, Daniel Vorcaro, forged contacts with a sprawling network of politicians of every stripe, top judges and high-ranking officials before landing in jail for one of Brazil's biggest-ever financial scandals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
“You drive a hard bargain. But I can respect that. I’m a businessman myself.”
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
As The Times wrote, “hundreds of motion picture celebrities and wealthy society and businessmen and women in Palm Springs appealed to Los Angeles for aid.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
British-born businessmen Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne said they each gave £36 million, equivalent to $48.7 million, to Reform UK to help professionalize the upstart party ahead of the next general election expected by 2029.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
In Malta, home to 70,000 offshore companies and the headquarters of some of the world’s largest gambling groups, she wielded her pen against ministers and businessmen.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
That’s because the group bought the team in 2010 for an estimated $480 million from American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
But there was only one thing that could satisfy Buck Duke and the other leading businessmen of his day—Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller: crushing their competition.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
