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
A notorious strikebreaker noted for paying his workers abysmally low wages, the complicated robber baron also publicly supported progressive tax laws, including estate taxes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Back in the days before SATs and admissions scandals, that school was founded and funded by John D. Rockefeller, the classic robber baron of Standard Oil.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2019
What strikes me from her account is the robber baron period after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the hurt that still exists.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
