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Recent Examples of businessperson
This ability to win when interests compete, combined with a businessperson’s natural tendency to problem solve, will be an asset to Lutnick and Bessent.
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Joe Moglia, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
If Chicagoans demand more artisanal dairy products, some enterprising businessperson should meet that need.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
As a businessperson, Hagerty enjoyed a successful career in private equity.
—Nate Rau, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
To put it another way, no rational businessperson would pay the net present value of a business simply to buy the property, as is implicit in Beasley Timber's position equating the two values.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Joe Moglia, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
If Chicagoans demand more artisanal dairy products, some enterprising businessperson should meet that need.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
As a businessperson, Hagerty enjoyed a successful career in private equity.
—Nate Rau, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
To put it another way, no rational businessperson would pay the net present value of a business simply to buy the property, as is implicit in Beasley Timber's position equating the two values.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for businessperson
Recent Examples of Synonyms for businessperson
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In season 3, Isaacs played Timothy Ratliff, a wealthy businessman vacationing with his wife Victoria (played by Parker Posey).—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Trump has long built his brand on being a master dealmaker and a savvy businessman.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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His English improved by reading books and listening to audiobooks on creating businesses and biographies about entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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Coincidentally, Ice is CEO of 6th Ave Storytelling, which helps local entrepreneurs market their businesses.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Apr. 2025
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She’s followed through, for example, on her promise to pour her energy into growing as a businesswoman: Over the past 15 years, Williams has put her own money into more than 120 companies, 14 of them valued at $1 billion or more.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
16 Apr. 2025
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Mother Mara – Serbia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro Director: Mirjana Karanović Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, suddenly loses her son Nemanja to an untimely death.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
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Require carmakers to sell more electric cars and the buyers will come.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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In September 2022, Aguirre sold 10 pills that contained fentanyl to an unnamed buyer and two of their friends, according to his plea agreement.—
Andrea Klick,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2025
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Hot on the heels of each tech milestone of the digital age—the internet, social media, mobile—came marketers.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Food marketers often employ tenets of color psychology when branding products, and brown can be polarizing.—
Bedatri D. Choudhury,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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Dabney recalls that the seller was upgrading his solar array and getting rid of his current panels, which were about five years old.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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As Uso surpassed top stars like Roman Reigns and CM Punk to become WWE’s top merchandise seller, the Yeet movement catapulted Uso to not one but two of the most shocking upsets in WWE history.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Businessperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/businessperson. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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