magnate
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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
Mining magnate Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines recently opened Africa’s largest copper smelter in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a top copper producer that relies on Middle Eastern acid.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”
From Barron's • May 2, 2026
More than that, surely; a chocolate magnate, the creator of Amo.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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