one-percenters

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While the resort attracts its share of one-percenters, you’ll see them lugging their gear to the lifts like the rest of us—no white-glove concierge services here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The show about the Roy family — one-percenters who own a large media conglomerate — was nominated for 27 Emmy Awards and 14 of those are in acting categories.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

"Let the one-percenters hear the frustration that's going on," he said on the red carpet.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2023

“Succession” and its deeply dysfunctional dynasty of one-percenters led all Emmy nominees in its fourth and final season with 27, including best drama, which it has won two of the past three years.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

But it stops far too short, and Pattinson, who played a supremely smug billionaire sociopath in David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” isn’t given the chance to go similarly deep with this most iconic of one-percenters.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2022