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magnate

[mag-neyt, -nit] / ˈmæg neɪt, -nɪt /


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Browns Sold to Tennessee Truck-Stop Magnate Here's one to make Cleveland fans shake their heads: A partial owner of the hated Pittsburgh Steelers is buying the Browns.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012

The reversal comes at a time when Computer Magnate H. Ross Perot, as chairman of a committee on public education, is crusading to upgrade Texas schools.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a widely publicized purchase this year, Natural Resources Magnate Robert Holmes a Court spent $1 billion to buy 9.5% of Texaco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Atlanta Yachtsman and Cable-TV Magnate Ted Turner has often sailed daringly close to the wind, sometimes taking a soaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

What sort of ostracism would the President of a University endowed by the millions of a Magnate, propose to have enforced against his master?

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.




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