magnate
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Railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt gave comparatively little, apart from the $1 million that founded the university bearing his name.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
A Miami real estate magnate purchased the autographed road jersey, which Jordan wore during Game 2 of the 1988 Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Owner Matt Ellis is without doubt the lead character, having come in as a fan but also an incredibly wealthy and successful kitchen magnate.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But few have wanted to stamp their imprint on its mangrove-lined seaboard as definitively as Africa’s richest man, Nigerian oil magnate Aliko Dangote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
In the beginning, this new movement was largely financed by a pair of Los Angeles oil magnates.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
In The WSJ Money Interview, Gunjan Banerji will sit down with business magnates, financial titans and upstarts from all walks of life to answer your questions about how they made their fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
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
Among the top Republican donors are hedge fund operators and investment bankers; natural resource magnates; and others with specific concerns about federal policies that might affect their enterprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
The suburb they had their sights on was the affluent lakefront district of the auto magnates: Grosse Pointe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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