richest
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It won’t even downgrade him to not being the richest guy who has ever lived.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
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
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
But leaving the poverty of Nicaragua to go to the richest country in the world didn’t take much convincing.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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