magnate
Example Sentences
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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 late 1850s, before Association Football rules had been decided back in England, Cornish native and mining magnate Frank Rule set up a cricket team in Pachuca.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
In the 1870s, Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and benefactor of the university that bears his name, funded an effort to find out.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”
From Barron's • May 2, 2026
The second was a donation of £250,000 from the automobile magnate Lord Austin, which ended the Cavendish’s poverty-row ways for good.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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