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magnate

[mag-nayt, -nit] / ˈmæg neɪt, -nɪt /


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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

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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