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  • noun Plural form of baron.

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Examples

  • Demonizing these Wall Street barons is not enough.

    Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies. 2010

  • Simple solution for people like Randy Leonard acting like little barons is to change the way they are elected.

    Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • * These Jamaican/Somali young men and boys are all ripe cannon fodder for recruitment by the Turkish heroin barons and Vetnamese cannabis barons, who make most of the money from illegal drugs whilst sitting, usually untouchable, in the background.

    British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007

  • * These Jamaican/Somali young men and boys are all ripe cannon fodder for recruitment by the Turkish heroin barons and Vetnamese cannabis barons, who make most of the money from illegal drugs whilst sitting, usually untouchable, in the background.

    British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007

  • Called La Ciudad Blanca for the white stone used to build the stunning homes and palaces of Yucatan's hennequin barons, Mirada is filled with churches and temples, each with its own small plaza, where people congregate to enjoy salbutes, panuchos, and other corn dough based street snacks.

    The cuisine of the Yucatan: a gastronomical tour of the Maya heartland 2006

  • Called La Ciudad Blanca for the white stone used to build the stunning homes and palaces of Yucatan's hennequin barons, Mirada is filled with churches and temples, each with its own small plaza, where people congregate to enjoy salbutes, panuchos, and other corn dough based street snacks.

    The cuisine of the Yucatan: a gastronomical tour of the Maya heartland 2006

  • Called La Ciudad Blanca for the white stone used to build the stunning homes and palaces of Yucatan's hennequin barons, Mirada is filled with churches and temples, each with its own small plaza, where people congregate to enjoy salbutes, panuchos, and other corn dough based street snacks.

    The cuisine of the Yucatan: a gastronomical tour of the Maya heartland 2006

  • But there's much more to the play than the gay plotline; Marlowe shows us the barbaric and childish behavior of a king with few limits on his power, and the rebellion of his barons is not a revulsion to the gender of the king's lover, it is against his lowly station in life; he's not one of them.

    August 2005 2005

  • I called the barons, and told them that having considered their counsel and the kingdom's good, I would sail to Crete and take to wife Minos 'daughter.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

  • On the morrow, after they had taken their journey home, he called his barons to him and showed them after what manner the messengers had spoken, and asked their counsel.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902

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