magnate

Financed by Walter Chrysler, the motor magnate, the skyscraper's construction began in 1928 and was completed two years later.

From BBC ● 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

Her father, a business magnate in the U.S., suspects that she has gone to ground in Turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The second was a donation of £250,000 from the automobile magnate Lord Austin, which ended the Cavendish’s poverty-row ways for good.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In the beginning, this new movement was largely financed by a pair of Los Angeles oil magnates.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Rand Club was founded a year later by mining magnates, including Cecil John Rhodes, who walked the future streets of Johannesburg and selected a corner for what he deemed an essential gentlemen’s club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 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

It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024

During the bidding, tensions among the magnates sometimes boiled over.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann