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rich

[rich] / rɪtʃ /






NOUN
wealthy people or institutions
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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“Across the bay the yachts of the city’s rich lingered motionless all summer, never seeming to arrive or depart.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

“Buying a house isn’t guaranteed to make you rich, or even to break even,” said Jenny Schuetz, vice president of infrastructure and housing at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization focused on research and policy.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Certainly, many who live in Berlin love its rich artistic and cultural life, green spaces, lakes and children's playgrounds, vibrant start-up scene and hedonistic, anything-goes nightlife.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

Mafic magma has relatively low viscosity and is rich in magnesium and iron.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Jared told me they melt down real bars of chocolate to make the base, which is why it’s so rich and thick.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Their entire purpose is to make things taste deeper, richer and more satisfying, and on a Monday night I am happy to let them do their jobs.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

According to the findings, bulk NbSe2 may contain three interacting superconducting orders, suggesting that superconductivity in these materials is richer than previously recognized.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Two years later, Time Warner doled out an even richer $8.3-billion deal to the Dodgers, which at the time were under new ownership — Walter and his partners with Guggenheim Baseball Management.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The series shows otherwise and, she argues, is the richer for being filmed in the Zulu language: "English doesn't carry the same cultural richness that our languages do."

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

The smell—the same smell he had found at the lochan—grew richer and wilder and kinder with every step.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

But no foreign nation has drawn such sustained attention from the world’s richest man as the U.K., according to a Journal investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

But no other foreign nation has drawn such frequent, sustained attention from the world’s richest man as the U.K., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of 4½ years’ worth of his posts on X.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Africa's richest economy shed 345,000 jobs in the second quarter, with most of the losses coming in the community and social services sector.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

But the photos are from a members-only club in Mumbai - India's financial capital and the capital of its richest state Maharashtra.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

So the gap between the very richest and everyone else is almost certainly much larger.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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