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
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
Tom Cruise has dangled from cliffs, skyscrapers and planes, but oil magnate Digger Rockwell is his riskiest role in eons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
In the late 1980s, during roughly the same period Steinem later described grappling with depression, she also dated New York real-estate magnate Mort Zuckerman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
More than that, surely; a chocolate magnate, the creator of Amo.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
But I’ve tackled enough of it to inform you that, sadly, ignoring Charles Schwab or J. P. Morgan Chase will not make the ghosts of these greedy American business magnates go away.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
Once these magnates were content to simply buy their local teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
As Lawrence rose in professional esteem, his social circle came to encompass the banking and oil magnates who had become his financial patrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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