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
And of course, Disney keeps mining "Star Wars" and Marvel like a robber baron.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022
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
Here and there some robber baron who had struck a poor line of country would have had to be content with a homely little castle.
From They and I by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
