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plutocrat

[ploo-tuh-krat] / ˈplu təˌkræt /
NOUN
wealthy person with power
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Is the owner an absentee plutocrat who texts “Sounds good” from Davos or a wannabe Rockne who played six or seven downs at Choate?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

As recently as Halloween, this boy plutocrat with the shaggy bro-’fro was a freshly minted paragon of greed in the service of good.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Plemons explores the darker dimensions of a cunning plutocrat, unwilling to give anybody anything he thinks they don’t deserve.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Nor did the Russian plutocrat or the deputy prime minister of a Gulf state or the activist investor or the owner of a ranch the size of Los Angeles.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2021

Despite the liver spots and the purplish swags under his eyes, he at last appeared the cruelly handsome plutocrat, though somewhat reduced.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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