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Recent Examples of landholder
The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years.
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John Meyer,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.
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Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats.
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Ian Johnson,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
Still, enforcement can go only so far with the smaller landholders and subsistence farmers who are responsible for an increasingly large share of the remaining deforestation.
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Jeff Tollefson,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2013
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John Meyer,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.
—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats.
—
Ian Johnson,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
Still, enforcement can go only so far with the smaller landholders and subsistence farmers who are responsible for an increasingly large share of the remaining deforestation.
—
Jeff Tollefson,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landholder
landowner
Noun
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Mum Bet, who in 1781 sued for her freedom under Massachusetts law and won; and Abraham Peyton Skipwith, who bought his freedom and became the first Black landowner in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Va.
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One of the historical laws Hawaii pointed to was an 1865 Louisiana statute, adopted after the Civil War, to prevent anyone from carrying a gun onto a plantation without the landowner’s permission.
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“Landholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landholder. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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