magnate
Example Sentences
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In the 1870s, Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and benefactor of the university that bears his name, funded an effort to find out.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
The financial documents suggest one of the two major funders is a foundation run by sugar magnate Igor Khudokormov.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”
From Barron's • May 2, 2026
Montazeri can’t travel to Dubai or Abu Dhabi, where he once regularly attended art fairs and mingled with his major collectors, including pharmaceutical magnate Farhad Farjam and financier and philanthropist Mohammed Afkhami.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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