robber baron
Example Sentences
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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
Indeed, skeptics sometimes associate geoengineering with supervillain behavior, like a famous episode of The Simpsons in which the robber baron Mr. Burns blocks the sun.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2024
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
Gates became interested in immunizations in the late 1990s, when Microsoft was facing an antitrust case that cast him as a modern-day robber baron.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2020
The robber baron, Sir Jacobus Kloon, swiped, — as Froissart has it, — the Esthonian gems, and under agreement to deliver them to you, I suppose, thought better of it and attempted to abscond.
From The Flaming Jewel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
