as in have
a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
Bradley Tusk,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2026
Tech executives, venture capitalists and business leaders have donated roughly $118 million to a nonprofit called Building a Better California, according to data on the secretary of state’s website.
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Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
With the games having kicked off, the sport has shown its ineffable power to supplant crass and capitalistic overreach.
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Emily Olsen,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Noun
Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist and philanthropist.
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Bradley Tusk,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2026
Tech executives, venture capitalists and business leaders have donated roughly $118 million to a nonprofit called Building a Better California, according to data on the secretary of state’s website.
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Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Adjective
But the cure is not to demand that one private foundation become the counterweight to three centuries of capitalist common sense.
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The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
With the games having kicked off, the sport has shown its ineffable power to supplant crass and capitalistic overreach.
—
Emily Olsen,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
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Private fundraising has long been seen as a way to pad school budgets in wealthier communities, usually to pay for nice-to-haves, such as field trips and student clubs.
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Meta needs a web services business , just like the other three have.
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The memorandum of understanding signed last week between the US and Iran is meant to halt fighting, open the Strait of Hormuz and offer economic relief to Iran in exchange for a pledge never to develop nuclear weapons.
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The bank said last week's hawkish Federal Open Market Committee meeting has increased uncertainty over the outlook for short-term interest rates, even as lower oil prices have eased concerns about an economic downturn.
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Then the plutocrats circled their yachts.
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The Titanic is still a subject of worldwide fascination, in part because of the range of passengers aboard the ship, from paupers to plutocrats.
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Technology companies are rapidly purchasing high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to power massive commercial large language models and applications to serve their end-users.
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But the incident inspired him to test commercial AI glasses in an undergraduate level exam of an electrical engineering course.
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For the superstar whose private jet is tracked, whose every appearance is documented and whose movements become global headlines within minutes, an arena transformed into a private world may be the closest thing to privacy that money can buy.
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Multiple network insiders said Tuesday afternoon that no clear front-runner has emerged for James, but that money will not drive the decision.
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French and Ukrainian media reported that a Ukrainian magnate and his family were those injured.
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Jolie balked at the term and struck a $64 million deal with the billionaire alcohol magnate, Yuri Shefler.
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The newest installment of the movie that made Pixar a powerhouse and Steve Jobs a billionaire just secured the biggest opening weekend in the history of the Toy Story franchise.
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Soloviev didn’t look the part of a billionaire who has spent most of his adult life on Lily Pond Lane.
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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