magnate
Example Sentences
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Likewise, Andy’s story starts when a magnate shutters her current job at a newspaper called the New York Vanguard, firing her and her colleagues for a $500-million tax write-off.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Not only does the Korean magnate understandably detest that style, she has no love for Lindsay either.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Witkoff, a former real estate magnate, is Donald Trump's special envoy and Kushner is the US president's son-in-law.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The Victorian-era town with dramatic cliffs is on the windswept northeast coast and was developed as a resort by a Quaker mining and railroad magnate in 1861.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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