robber baron
Example Sentences
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Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
Robert A. Iger, who leads Disney, publicly pushed back against the striking workers, and found himself jeered on picket lines as a robber baron.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2023
And of course, Disney keeps mining "Star Wars" and Marvel like a robber baron.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022
Gates became interested in immunizations in the late 1990s, when Microsoft was facing an antitrust case that cast him as a modern-day robber baron.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2020
I should be sorry if the day ever came when labor was the serf, and capital the robber baron, as—let us frankly acknowledge—it is elsewhere.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
