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businesswoman

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as in businessman

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Recent Examples of businesswoman In addition to modeling and being a businesswoman, Kaia is also an actress. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 29 July 2026 In Pompeii, there are Avianius, a teenager apprenticed to a blacksmith, and Julia Felix, a rare female businesswoman who runs a kind of spa cum entertainment center for the well-to-do. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026 That includes a stunning gold and jeweled necklace discovered on the remains of an adult woman presumed to be Julia Felix, excavated next to the Shrine of Isis at the prosperous businesswoman's sprawling estate. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 July 2026 Hiddleston relies on professors, scholars, archaeologists and psychologists to piece together what happened to a teenage blacksmith apprentice, a businesswoman/bathhouse proprietor and an unidentified Praetorian guard. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for businesswoman

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Fenway Sports Group, the club’s majority owner, is in discussions to offload as much as a 30% stake to a consortium led by by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, valuing the franchise at $6 billion.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 3 Aug. 2026
The businessman who led a group of investors that pulled Tongaat Hulett back from the brink of liquidation plans to remake southern Africa sugar giant.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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Outside of her on-court success, Reese has become one of the faces of the league, and is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and role model for the next generation of female athletes.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
He is joined by James Workman, a storyteller, entrepreneur and author.

— Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026

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