tycoon
Example Sentences
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This time her 343rd “charge” is a hapless 87-year old CEO oil tycoon K. J. Boone unwilling to pass over from the “baffling country” of terminal illness toward its “inevitable occurrence.”
From Los Angeles Times
How do the tycoons of our time think about money?
While American energy majors hesitate about going back to Venezuela, oil traders and tanker tycoons are diving in.
Chen is a tycoon who founded the major Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group, which has also come under official scrutiny.
From Barron's
The enigmatic tycoon had given up his Chinese nationality to become a Cambodian citizen in 2014.
From BBC
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