Examples of tycoon in a Sentence
an oil tycoon who's widely considered the most powerful man in the county
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Oil tycoon Wilmer Ruperti showed up for a meeting with Venezuela’s intelligence agency last Thursday.
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Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Howard Hughes, the germ-averse aviation tycoon, is believed to have had it, too.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2026
That flashback thread unfolds against the twilight of British colonial rule, as the impending disbanding of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force’s Special Branch collides with the kidnapping of a prominent business tycoon, triggering a dangerous internal power struggle.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
The host of the massacre is the powerful tycoon Chester Danforth (filmmaker David Cronenberg), a hotel and casino impresario, who entrusts the actual event planning to his adult children, twins Ursula and Titus (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy).
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Howard Hughes, the germ-averse aviation tycoon, is believed to have had it, too.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2026
That flashback thread unfolds against the twilight of British colonial rule, as the impending disbanding of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force’s Special Branch collides with the kidnapping of a prominent business tycoon, triggering a dangerous internal power struggle.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
The host of the massacre is the powerful tycoon Chester Danforth (filmmaker David Cronenberg), a hotel and casino impresario, who entrusts the actual event planning to his adult children, twins Ursula and Titus (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy).
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Tycoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tycoon. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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tycoon
noun
ty·coon
tī-ˈkün 
: a very wealthy and powerful business person
Etymology
Japanese taikun "shogun"
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