magnate
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A few club members who relocated to South Florida or spend time there lined up to shake Bezos’ hand, including real-estate magnate Richard LeFrak and businessman Eddie Lampert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe on Wednesday ruled out a future in politics, dismissing speculation that he could one day run for the country's presidency.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
As for Keogh the lint-roller magnate, he says his operation wasn’t so passive at first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
In the mid-1920s, Howard began to live like the magnate he had become.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
But I’ve tackled enough of it to inform you that, sadly, ignoring Charles Schwab or J. P. Morgan Chase will not make the ghosts of these greedy American business magnates go away.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
Once these magnates were content to simply buy their local teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024
There he had to battle wealthy and influential utility magnates hoping to throttle the TVA at birth.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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