richest
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Or, to put it another way, out of a random group of 1,000 Americans, the richest single person owns about six times as much as the poorest 500 put together.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
And the richest 0.1%, who owned 8.6% of all wealth when Reagan left office, now own 14.5%.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
On that basis, he easily surpasses John D. Rockefeller, the richest American who ever lived before Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
If it happens, it would be the largest merger in history, coming after the largest IPO in history, with both companies led by the richest man in the world.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Writer Ernest Seeman accurately portrayed the Durham of his youth when he described this neighborhood of “large houses and well-groomed lawns, where several of its richest and most righteous rajputs and masters of machinery lived.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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