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plutocrat

[ploo-tuh-krat] / ˈplu təˌkræt /
NOUN
wealthy person with power
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There’s also a nascent league, the Professional Women’s Hockey League, which began playing in 2023, is bankrolled by Dodgers/Lakers plutocrat Mark Walter, and has had impressive success, filling arenas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

And in 2000, another plutocrat well known to Americans proposed a one-time tax of 14.25% on taxpayers with a net worth of $10 million or more.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Among the international plutocrat class, one trend is unmissable: Every CEO talks like Elon Musk now.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023

As recently as Halloween, this boy plutocrat with the shaggy bro-’fro was a freshly minted paragon of greed in the service of good.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Despite the liver spots and the purplish swags under his eyes, he at last appeared the cruelly handsome plutocrat, though somewhat reduced.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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