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[wel-thee] / ˈwɛl θi /


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Yeah, it’s also that our weakness for money, or the power of money, in this culture also causes us somehow to think that if you’re wealthy, you’re also wise rather than just ruthless, right?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

If you’re a wealthy celebrity who had the foresight to freeze your eggs—or who wants to use an egg donor—it’s an expensive but relatively simple route to parenthood.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

To make ends meet at village club Pipinsried, which is about 30 miles from Munich, football-obsessed Hurzeler worked for an art dealer selling paintings to wealthy Bavarians.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

A question has bedeviled a wealthy Lake Tahoe enclave for years: Who is poisoning the towering trees that stand sentry on the lake’s North Shore?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

It was owned by wealthy Gordon Lim, a graduate of Oxford and Beijing University.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

At a protest in central Paris last week, she told AFP there was a stark divide in resources between the 1,300 Eugene Henaff pupils and those in wealthier areas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

He then put the Dodgers up for sale, because he believed a family business would lack the resources of wealthier corporate ownerships, and the team might not remain competitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Musk’s trillioniare status means he’s wealthier than his next three contemporaries combined — and also worth more than historical tycoons like John D. Rockefeller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"They sell these individuals to military units and regional commands facing manpower shortages, or traffic substitute recruits on behalf of wealthier individuals seeking to buy their way out of service."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The wealthier families in our village supplemented their diets with tea, coffee, and sugar, but for most people in Qunu these were exotic luxuries far beyond their means.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But we may have underestimated how far the world’s wealthiest man and his ilk would go to prevent audiences from seeing it.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

In 2015, the couple purchased their home in the Silicon Valley city of Atherton, one of the wealthiest ZIP Codes in the U.S., for $12.5 million, property records show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

In April 2025, Musk’s net worth of $342 billion made him the wealthiest person in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

At the lavish home of one of Miami's top plastic surgeons, overlooking the Biscayne Bay, some of the wealthiest Cuban-American families in Florida have gathered.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Russia bordered twelve other countries these days, and some of those countries bordered some of the world’s wealthiest.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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