magnate

Example Sentences

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Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker once replied to him saying “Please excuse my lack of typos.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The retail magnate was identified in a 2019 FBI document as a potential "co-conspirator".

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

"That's been sort of a side effect of the modern world," said Wright, a former fracking magnate.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

The announcement comes nearly a decade after news broke of business magnate David Geffen’s record-high $150-million donation toward the construction of a new museum building to be designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

In New York, the sisters arranged a magnetic healing session with multimillionaire financier and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling