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Recent Examples of landowner
The purchase of 937,000 acres of New Mexico ranchland makes Kroenke, 78, the largest private landowner in the United States, according to the latest annual listing of the nation’s 100 largest landowners by The Land Report magazine.
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Vic Kolenc, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Li’l Abner’s 3,000 or so residents were ordered to vacate their trailers because CREI Holdings, the landowner, intended to develop the land beneath the trailers to build a multi-family housing complex.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Ted Turner, the cable entrepreneur and the nation’s fourth-largest landowner, also has tried to generate cash flow from his land holdings.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Citing guidance from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Florsheim argued in court that the ordinary high water mark extends to the vegetation at the edge of a landowner's property.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Vic Kolenc, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Li’l Abner’s 3,000 or so residents were ordered to vacate their trailers because CREI Holdings, the landowner, intended to develop the land beneath the trailers to build a multi-family housing complex.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Ted Turner, the cable entrepreneur and the nation’s fourth-largest landowner, also has tried to generate cash flow from his land holdings.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Citing guidance from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Florsheim argued in court that the ordinary high water mark extends to the vegetation at the edge of a landowner's property.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landowner
Noun
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That means that paying your landlord every month is also part of the home-buying process.—
Michael Y. Park,
Architectural Digest,
17 Feb. 2026
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Rogers Park residents in the middle of a months-long rent strike said they are being unjustly sued by their landlord.—
CBS Chicago Team,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ireland, the Steelers and the Rooney connection The Rooney family, the Steelers’ majority owners, trace their roots to Ireland, where their ancestors emigrated from in the 1840s before eventually settling in Pittsburgh.—
Tom Chitty,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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The league won't vote on expansion then, but Silver expects to know whether the league will move on to talk with potential owners.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Landowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landowner. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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