How to Use financier in a Sentence

financier

noun
  • A group of powerful financiers bought out the company.
  • In the nineties, the billionaire financier Ronald Perelman became a friend and client of Gagosian’s.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Some of the film’s financiers worried that the film could start riots in the South, but Walter Mirisch refused to be warned off.
    Claudia Luther, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The celebration came eight months after the court announced that the princess was engaged to the financier.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Peltz’s 25 desperate attempts to join Disney’s board should be seen as the last flicker of the flame of the flailing financier.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The pandemic prompted wealthy financiers to flock here for the low taxes and good weather.
    Michael Smith, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The financier often made up stories to get out of meetings and visit galleries.
    Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It was even harder given the code of silence still surrounding the dead financier.
    Ava Benny-Morrison, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • His father, a financier, passed on to him a love of soccer, and the athletic uniforms of the ’80s and ’90s had an impact on Aka’s personal style.
    Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The best finish is a moist peanut financier served with sparkling mandarin orange sorbet and dabs of silky chocolate cremeaux.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • His mother was an abstract sculptor, his father a financier in the fur trade who died of a heart attack when Edward was 7.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The supercar shares the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays the disgraced real-life financier in the movie and its infamous Quaaludes scene.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
  • His largesse to Democratic causes was surpassed over the past two years only by that of George Soros, the liberal financier.
    Nick Mourtoupalas, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Buia is planning an annual ski trip to Europe with her financier husband Heath and their four teenagers.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2023
  • While not a criminal, Bostwick was a wealthy financier who left hundreds of millions hidden somewhere, and Red knows the Hyena is on the hunt.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Once the summer home of a wealthy financier, this 52-acre estate is now a historic park and one of only two public gardens owned and run by the New York state park system.
    Wendy O'Dea, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Baumgartner was also seen spending time with Josh Connor, a financier who lives near the family, at the beach.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • Lohan’s pregnancy comes a little under a year of being married to the financier.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The 66-year-old financier died by suicide in his jail cell in Manhattan a little over a month after being arrested.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The idea is that this initial financial boost signals to private financiers both within and outside South Africa that things are changing.
    Bianca Nogrady, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But two former co-workers said that the pay was modest and the work didn’t square with Santos’s depiction of himself as a financier passing time after bad bets left him on the outs on Wall Street.
    Michael Gold, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Capton and Niel are being backed by a consortium which includes Matthieu Pigasse, a big-time financier who is the third co-founder of Mediawan, among others.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Cameron himself has said The Way of Water will need to earn in the $2 billion range to be considered a success, although the breakeven number is closer to $1 billion, according to a film financier.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • President Bill Clinton did effectively sell a pardon to the late Marc Rich, then a fugitive financier.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
  • However, the financier has future plans to use the entire property as his retirement home, sources told the newspaper.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The bank has denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, and has sued former executive Jes Staley for his dealings with the disgraced financier.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • With its collapse, the startup ecosystem loses both its financier and champion.
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Since her husband, financier and Democratic megadonor Richard Blum, died a year ago, Feinstein has been under immense strain, people close to her said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Sidewalks grew more crowded, and the fluid line between hipsters, tech workers, financiers, drug users and homeless people turned into a strange pageant running east and west of Spring Street.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023

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