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tycoon

[tahy-koon] / taɪˈkun /


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A South Korean court ordered an AI chip-manufacturing tycoon on Friday to make a trimmed-down $644 million divorce payment to his former wife.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Crypto tycoon Justin Sun boasted of having invested $75 million with a Trump-linked crypto firm.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Now, the tycoon is reaping the benefits: The refinery reached full capacity in February—just in time to supply global markets with fuel that doesn’t need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

In an article published on Substack, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for many years Russia’s top oil tycoon and now a leading opposition figure, explained why the damage to the refining industry is so severe.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

As a result of the scam, Woodhull tricked the seventy-four-year-old tycoon into believing she and her sister had mystical powers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Equity receivership, a bankruptcy-like proceeding used to reorganize troubled companies, was a favorite method that many of these tycoons deployed to outplay their rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

But the prosecution failed to provide evidence she awarded contracts to any of the oil tycoons named because of bribes.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Henry Ford described Five-Dollar Day in terms rarely used by industrial tycoons.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

Lore goes that when Alec Guinness received the “Coronets” script with an offer to play four of the ill-fated tycoons, he wrote back greedily and said, “Why not eight?”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Over the course of the chapters ahead, I’m going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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