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This clan has, for generations, sorted out any problems the Abdalahs, one of Mr. Mueenuddin’s landowning families, have had with their laborers and with their neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The grant is based on a percentage of the profits of the independent property and landowning business, the Crown Estate.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

There are already wind turbines atop the butte, built by the landowning Galt family with Borgquist’s help.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

The so-called English squirearchy, which began as a military class, gradually became a landowning caste from which the members of Parliament were elected.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023

There is as many different kinds of landowning as there is of landowners.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver