Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.
From Los Angeles Times
Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.
From MarketWatch
Global Crossing, a company he founded that promised to lay undersea fiber-optic cable around the world, made him a billionaire on paper in less than two years, a faster rise than Gilded Age oil baron John D. Rockefeller or Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
The new national-security initiative moves him closer to replicating the work of his bank’s namesake, the Morgans, who helped bring together robber barons and Gilded Age financiers to backstop America’s industrial revolution and stave off financial crises.
Weeks after it was claimed that Swift, 35, and Kelce, 36, were planning to tie the knot at a historic Gilded Age mansion near the singer’s $18 million Watch Hill, R.I., vacation home, insiders have now alleged that the duo have, in fact, opted for a different venue even closer to the pop star’s beloved property.
From MarketWatch
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