businessman
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It was funded by a businessman with no prior experience in boxing, but a thirst to be part of Teasdale's rise to the top.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
WASHINGTON—President Trump said that Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed a Russian businessman who financed his son’s lavish wedding afterparty in the Bahamas earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A prominent Welsh businessman has been named as one of three people killed in a plane crash in the Swiss Alps.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
The businessman slid down to his knees and put his head in his hands.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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The lack of stigma among the Hawaiians, we learn, is cause for colonial concern: Father Damien’s death becomes a local scandal, and provokes a moral panic among the American businessmen who had bought Hawaiian land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger, successful businessmen by any measure, paid $12.5 billion for the Lakers, easily the highest price ever for a sports franchise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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
When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development—to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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