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It won’t even downgrade him to not being the richest guy who has ever lived.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Or, to put it another way, out of a random group of 1,000 Americans, the richest single person owns about six times as much as the poorest 500 put together.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
A Suffolk MP is taking on one of the richest men in the world - Elon Musk.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
His first big breakout came in the dot-com boom, when internet investments made him the world’s richest man for just three days—in his words—before the bubble burst and wiped out 99% of SoftBank’s value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
If Odysseus was dead, it would certainly be well for her to marry the richest of these men and the most liberal.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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