Burren
Britishnoun
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“There is a very good chance there will be a bidding war,” said Massimo Stabilini, a London-based hedge-fund manager at Burren Capital Advisors and Warner shareholder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Police were called to the property in Burren Meadow in Newcastle at about 05:35 BST on Sunday.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2018
Robert Burren Morgan, a son of farmers, was born Oct.
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2016
Lately it has been asserted that Tolkien was also guided by the gloomy strangeness of the Burren in western Ireland, a stony netherworld whose beauty and bleakness can seem one and the same.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013
Bogs are frequent also in the mountainous districts elsewhere, except in the limestone barony of Burren, the inhabitants of some parts of which supply themselves with turf from the opposite shores of Connemara.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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