BARONS Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

barons

noun

plural of baron

as in magnates

a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field a media baron who owns newspapers, television and radio stations, and even several cable networks

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Recent Examples of barons Like the barons of New York a century ago, Ackman seems to be trying to shift the landscape to create another corridor, one fitted to his own interests. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2026 Climate Defiance, the left-wing group whose portfolio includes disrupting both oil barons and Democrats, showed up to film skits criticizing her, with a comedian portraying her. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026 The writer and former white supremacist Richard Hanania was once the toast of MAGA-curious tech barons and reactionary intellectuals. — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026 Action sweeps from America’s railroad barons to Vienna’s stock market crash. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026 This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 As recounted by Peter Biskind in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Cimino ran long and went over budget on his epic drama about the Johnson County War, which saw cattle barons attacking immigrant laborers in late 19th-century Wyoming. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026 Workers endured dangerous conditions, poverty wages and widening inequality while industrial barons amassed extraordinary power. — Tom Debley, Mercury News, 16 June 2026 Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders, and billionaire miners — move in for the kill, with billions of dollars at stake. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 June 2026

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The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.

— Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

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The entrepreneur’s efforts secured him a place on the list of the Philippines’ 50 richest in a challenging year when a weaker peso took a toll on the total wealth of the country’s tycoons, which shrank 8% to $79 billion.

— Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
That has created mounting public resistance as tech companies concentrate historic levels of wealth in the hands of a select group of tycoons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

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