magnate
Example Sentences
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Its name is associated with Thiel Capital, a California-based investment firm founded by the tech magnate, who himself was born in Germany and holds German citizenship.
From Barron's
The 67-year-old construction magnate and former mayor of the Honduran capital is running in a tight three-way race gainst a leftist lawyer and a fellow right-wing TV host in the Sunday vote.
From Barron's
The Rand Club was founded a year later by mining magnates, including Cecil John Rhodes, who walked the future streets of Johannesburg and selected a corner for what he deemed an essential gentlemen’s club.
In the first decades of the 20th century, newspaper magnates V.S.
From Seattle Times
And a toy magnate traded hundreds of millions of dollars in stock and options of his main rival, conducting transactions on at least 295 days.
From Salon
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