magnate
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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
Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton bought the property in 1950.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Trump, a former real estate magnate who promotes family enterprises at every opportunity, told Martin that Doonbeg was "one of the greatest courses in the world".
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
In the mid-1920s, Howard began to live like the magnate he had become.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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In the beginning, this new movement was largely financed by a pair of Los Angeles oil magnates.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Greek shipping companies collectively control the world’s biggest tanker fleet, giving magnates such as Prokopiou a powerful role in the oil market and access in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
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
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