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Recent Examples of landowner
Residents rallied against landowner Matt Connell’s proposal with many expressing concerns the burial site would disrupt their quiet community and contaminate groundwater or attract wildlife that could dig up the graves.
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Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
The complex also included residential quarters, likely a villa for a wealthy landowner.
—Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
About 250 people in Killingworth — the largest group to file a complaint with a fair rent commission in recent history — will get a one-year reprieve from increases after the town’s committee rejected their landowner’s rent adjustment plan.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
The story of Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, who in 2009 tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 May 2026
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Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
The complex also included residential quarters, likely a villa for a wealthy landowner.
—Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
About 250 people in Killingworth — the largest group to file a complaint with a fair rent commission in recent history — will get a one-year reprieve from increases after the town’s committee rejected their landowner’s rent adjustment plan.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
The story of Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, who in 2009 tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landowner
Noun
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Paul DiPierro and Scott Ostrander, owners of adjacent restaurant Origami Asian Grill, encouraged Pruner to talk to the landlord when the space vacated.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
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Kidd is the executive director of the Fair Housing Resource Center, an agency certified by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide all kinds of services, from counseling that helps people achieve homeownership to complaints about civil rights abuses by landlords.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Those owners were McKim Boyd’s great-uncles, and now Boyd himself runs the family business that his great-grandparents acquired in 1918.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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The Stone House This three-bedroom, two-story guest house dates back to 1911 and is filled with upcycled treasures from the neighboring Black Dog Salvage, an antique warehouse run by the same owners.—
Julekha Dash,
Travel + Leisure,
6 June 2026
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“Landowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landowner. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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