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The proprietor of the bookstore greeted each customer warmly and offered personalized recommendations based on their interests.proprietor = owner
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After 40 years of greeting guests in person, the proprietor of the restaurant is retiring.
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The merchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demanded that the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not be cheated. (source)proprietor = owner of a business
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The proprietor said "There has never been such a fish." (source)proprietor = owner of the business
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The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man. (source)proprietor = owner of a business
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And that raised another question: How would the new proprietors treat a Jewish landlord?† (source)
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Up front, behind a long, grooved wooden counter, sat Ida Paine, the hawknosed, farsighted proprietor of the store.† (source)
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She also spoke of finding another store to patronize, one where the proprietors were more concerned about the welfare of the community.† (source)
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Everyone referred to the baby by name, almost in a tone of proud proprietorship, but no one knew who Chun belonged to or where he or she had come from.† (source)
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In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.† (source)
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He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.† (source)
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I'm to ask for the proprietor of Cook's.† (source)
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Then Betty's Luncheonette, which is under new ownership again: sooner or later its proprietors get fed up, or die, or move to Florida.† (source)
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Rearden noted that if he had resented as impertinence Francisco's manner of proprietorship in his office, he himself was now guilty of the same attitude-because he offered no explanation for his visit, but crossed the room and sat down in an armchair, casually, as if he were at home.† (source)
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In spite of Petra's continued propensity to slip at any moment into what, in terms of sound, would be a deafening bellow, we all felt a proprietorial pride in her progress.† (source)
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He walked in while Samantha, the proprietor, was busy, asking for a number four.† (source)
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