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South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe on Wednesday ruled out a future in politics, dismissing speculation that he could one day run for the country's presidency.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

The Italian magnate had money to burn after the pandemic-era boxship boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

In the mid-1920s, Howard began to live like the magnate he had become.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

But I’ve tackled enough of it to inform you that, sadly, ignoring Charles Schwab or J. P. Morgan Chase will not make the ghosts of these greedy American business magnates go away.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026

Once these magnates were content to simply buy their local teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024

Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

A passenger train also rolled through town, carrying not only travelers of modest means but also the well-appointed private coaches that the wealthy magnates of that era owned and used to travel around the country.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson