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Recent Examples of laird
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Brian and Ellen, for example, will have to face the consequences that come with murdering Malcolm, the new laird of Clan Grant.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Malcolm is now laird of Clan Grant.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
In episode 3, the question of who would be named the next laird of Clan MacKenzie came to a head.
—Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Shakespeare reveals his villain-protagonist’s foil late in the plot: Macduff only stands out from a miscellaneous herd of Scottish lairds once Macbeth sends assassins after his family.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
The term green laird is used to express concern about the concentration of ownership and power, says Hamish Trench, the chief executive of the Scottish Land Commission, the public body created by the Scottish government to advise on land policy.
—Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
A few thousand sheep could generate more revenue for a laird than a few hundred farmer-tenants.
—New York Times, 5 May 2022
Then there’s the laird of North Uist, Fergus Granville—think of a laird as a cross between a mayor and Downton’s Lord Grantham.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2016
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Brian and Ellen, for example, will have to face the consequences that come with murdering Malcolm, the new laird of Clan Grant.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Malcolm is now laird of Clan Grant.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
In episode 3, the question of who would be named the next laird of Clan MacKenzie came to a head.
—Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Shakespeare reveals his villain-protagonist’s foil late in the plot: Macduff only stands out from a miscellaneous herd of Scottish lairds once Macbeth sends assassins after his family.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
The term green laird is used to express concern about the concentration of ownership and power, says Hamish Trench, the chief executive of the Scottish Land Commission, the public body created by the Scottish government to advise on land policy.
—Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
A few thousand sheep could generate more revenue for a laird than a few hundred farmer-tenants.
—New York Times, 5 May 2022
Then there’s the laird of North Uist, Fergus Granville—think of a laird as a cross between a mayor and Downton’s Lord Grantham.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laird
Noun
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Business records obtained at the time by the Columbus Dispatch linked Microsoft founder Bill Gates to the entity, but Savion didn't respond to inquiries about the ruling or the project landowner.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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French maintained a tight lead against incumbent Jim Wright, a fifth-generation rancher running for his second term whose primary campaign priorities included reducing red tape for new oil production, plugging orphan wells, and defending landowner rights.—
Emily Holshouser
May 27,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Duchy chief executive Will Bax said the aim is to shift the estate from being a traditional landholder to something that delivers a wider social impact.—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
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Bishops were major landholders and political figures; controlling their selection meant controlling wealth, loyalty and governance.—
Joëlle Rollo-Koster,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Having a horny landlady who won’t stop hitting on your boyfriend constantly isn’t the end of the world.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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With a firm hold, the landlady showed me how to switch on the boiler and wait for ten minutes until the hot water came.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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