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businessman

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as in entrepreneur

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Recent Examples of businessman My table includes a young mother with an Ivy League law degree, a political consultant from the Carolinas, an expat Moroccan businessman, a creative from a famed Spanish fashion house, and a jewelry dealer from the American Northeast. — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026 Cardiff had their problems under Malaysian businessman Tan but not nearly as many as Wednesday, whom Storch had been advised to monitor 12 months before his eventual takeover. — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Lowe, who has a longstanding feud with Farage, was forced out of the party last year and subsequently started his own, egged on by US billionaire businessman Elon Musk. — Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 The consortium behind the deal, 1892 Holdings, is managed by businessman Amit Bhatia, who is the primary partner in the deal and a former co-owner of the Queens Parks Rangers soccer club. — Alex Sherman,jessica Golden, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for businessman

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There is palpable concern that Paramount CEO David Ellison will assign oversight of CNN to Bari Weiss, a digital entrepreneur and opinion writer installed last year as editor in chief of CBS News.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
Now the accidental entrepreneur, Elizabeth Stein, is making the biggest sale of her life.

— Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of entrepreneur

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In an industrial zone in Arteixo, at the furthest northwestern tip of Spain, amid granite quarries and aluminum merchants, Inditex, the company that owns Zara, has built a city of glass.

— Gaby Wood, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026
The deal is also a reminder that a growing number of empty retail spaces once operated by merchants that are defunct or downsizing are being picked up by a new generation of retailers and other types of companies.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of merchant

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In the world of corporate mergers and acquisitions, an out-of-town buyer looks to cut costs in order to help cover the share-price premium necessary to clinch the deal and those reductions typically come mainly at the expense of the seller.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
The buyer, Joshua Kushner, is Trump family-adjacent, recently tried to invest in FIFA in what became a true international scandal and could soon become the youngest control owner in the NBA.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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