as in magnate
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
a media baron who owns newspapers, television and radio stations, and even several cable networks
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Recent Examples of baron
Now, blockchain baron Justin Sun has found his next conversation piece: a $6.2 million banana secured to a wall with duct tape, paired with a $30 million bet on Donald Trump’s crypto venture.
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Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 27 Nov. 2024
Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee
At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
The Yankees’ twenty-seven World Series titles long ago made the team barons of baseball certitude.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners — move in for the kill.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
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Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 27 Nov. 2024
Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee
At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
The Yankees’ twenty-seven World Series titles long ago made the team barons of baseball certitude.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners — move in for the kill.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
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Enlisting their quintessentially Italian ingenuity, the fashion magnates took over the Fay brand which was, at the time, a producer of technical garments for fishermen and firefighters, and set their sights on adapting the firmly utilitarian design for a luxury clientele.Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
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This version of the list, sent to the mayor’s office in February 2023, included celebrities, sports team owners, real estate tycoons and financiers.Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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But the real estate tycoon tells Forbes the investment will be done through his data center company Edgnex, financed in part by the company’s own cash and largely through bank loans.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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The king of TDs at a position should be the No. 1 pick at the position.Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Donald Trump: Comeback king Fortunes have truly reversed for former president turned President-elect Trump.Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Baron.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baron. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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