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
A notorious strikebreaker noted for paying his workers abysmally low wages, the complicated robber baron also publicly supported progressive tax laws, including estate taxes.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023
Describing it, he invoked the mustachioed robber baron: “It was made in the first decade of this century for J.P. Morgan.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Mr. 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 New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020
He is not dealing with "the robber baron" capitalistic class.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
