tycoon
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In 2024, Treasury sanctioned Ly Yong Phat, a Cambodian senator and tycoon, for alleged human-rights abuses of scam workers in a casino resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border owned by one of his companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
And the biggest, by far, was Ben Hill Griffin Jr. Even Peter Pulitzer, grandson of publishing tycoon Joseph Pulitzer, amassed a citrus empire.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
In doing so, the tech tycoon broke with the company's previous approach of prioritizing development of free, open-access AI models such as Llama.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Clement did indeed mention the man then known as a real estate tycoon and reality-TV host, however.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
The architect replies that if the boat were sinking, and there was only room in the lifeboat for one person, he would gladly give up his life for the newspaper tycoon.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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