magnate
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On Thursday, the holding company of construction magnate Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, which holds 13.5 percent, said it would oppose a rival plan that has been put forward by MPS management.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Financed by Walter Chrysler, the motor magnate, the skyscraper's construction began in 1928 and was completed two years later.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Her father, a business magnate in the U.S., suspects that she has gone to ground in Turkey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
From John Sutter on to a “dress rehearsal” for a Confederate victory and through to resource magnates like Leland Stanford, readers will understand that a conflict between North and South also included the West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Wall Street Journal’s Gunjan Banerji is sitting 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. 23, 2026
Americans are well accustomed to ridiculously wealthy magnates assuming the same pose at their desks, or as Richard Branson did, on national TV.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 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
There he had to battle wealthy and influential utility magnates hoping to throttle the TVA at birth.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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