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landholder

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Recent Examples of landholder 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 The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years. — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 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 Bishops were major landholders and political figures; controlling their selection meant controlling wealth, loyalty and governance. — Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for landholder

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Still, the landowner had continued to find pieces of wreckage for years.

— Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Stream-access proponents took a similar approach in 2010, after a landowner on the Taylor River strung cables from bank to bank to keep a rafting company from floating down.

— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026

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