moneyed

Example Sentences

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Brad Reese spent his early childhood in Hershey, Pa. Immediately after the sale, his newly moneyed parents moved the family to Minneapolis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Mr. Wright keeps tossing in would-be funny denunciations of the moneyed elites that are about as spicy as a bowl of sour cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

It's Michaela, not Peter, who holds the community’s moneyed congregation in the palm of her hand.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Despite all the historic evidence, as the moneyed Southern lawyer saw things, at-large balloting was just another neutral tool of election administration.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024

When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie