robber baron

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Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

Robert A. Iger, who leads Disney, publicly pushed back against the striking workers, and found himself jeered on picket lines as a robber baron.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2023

And of course, Disney keeps mining "Star Wars" and Marvel like a robber baron.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022

But he was also a robber baron who gained control of the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2019

Rather did he suggest the present-day atavism of some robber baron of the Middle Ages, whose hectoring speech bubbled forth from a stout heart.

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis