How to Use capitalist in a Sentence

capitalist

1 of 2 noun
  • So, is Trump a state capitalist?
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Next up are due diligence calls with the angels and the venture capitalist.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Making a career as a venture capitalist is a route that many couldn’t imagine just a few decades ago.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Investors and venture capitalists hear dozens of pitches a week.
    Carmine Gallo, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • No college degree will prepare you to be a great venture capitalist.
    Edith Yeung, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Venture capitalists are known for doing their due diligence.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Deborah, ever the die-hard capitalist, shrugs her off.
    Caroline Framke, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Pens, tablets and even laptops have disappeared from meetings with venture capitalists over the last year.
    Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Faced with a choice between another landowning capitalist and a spaceport, the crofters tend to side with the spaceport.
    WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • These are the ultimate capitalists, pecking ruggedly at the earth’s skin and turning its lifeblood into piles of cash.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Venture capitalists are some of the most powerful people on the planet.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Fluidstack seems to have largely turned to credit rather than venture capitalists to finance its growth.
    Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Venture capitalists fueled its rise with billions of dollars to rent up real estate around the world and lease it back to workers.
    Lynn Doan, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Too much money leads founders to take extra risks, often being prodded by venture capitalist who wanted to see growth at all costs.
    Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Of course, Pragmatism is a capitalist’s dream.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So venture capitalists [VCs] and the start-up world are very good at two very interesting things.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The winners are the venture capitalists.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Kutcher has also found success as a venture capitalist.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The three-and-a-half-mile trail is a favorite of the prosecutor turned venture capitalist, but Haun wasn’t out for leisure.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Basham has also been self-employed as a venture capitalist since 2016.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And unlike its rivals, Plaud has done it without handouts from venture capitalists.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The venture capitalists with the most money and the highest tolerance for risk are already rewriting the rules for the public too.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Swift, whose net worth surpasses $2 billion, has amassed a fortune that rivals tech founders and venture capitalists.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
  • The small capitalists are trying to be the bigger capitalists.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • Venture capitalists are always an optimistic bunch—in public at least—so who knows when (or if) their token portfolios will perk up.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 2 June 2023
  • Startups need bank accounts and other services to secure investment from venture capitalists and put it to work.
    WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That will benefit crony capitalists, not consumers.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
  • By the next day on March 9, venture capitalists and others had withdrawn some $40 billion from the bank.
    Steve Denning, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Many venture capitalists warn against three-sided marketplaces, where three user groups need to be onboarded for the business to work.
    Nelson Chu, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • As a venture capitalist, Struck says his job is to think about what the world will look like in 10 years, and invest accordingly.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

capitalist

2 of 2 adjective
  • In many ways this is a huge win for their anti capitalist agenda.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • Whitney is this kind of capitalist avatar.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • If this is so, then New World slavery could not have been capitalist.
    Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What’s more anti-capitalist than taking things slow, eyes drifting across the screen?
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That’s bad news for us but good news for the foremost childhood games turned anti-capitalist blood sport film series.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Something that struck me about this book in relation to your other work was the overt anti-capitalist theme.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • India, like other capitalist states, has turned its back on any notion of seeking the common good for all.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Money talks, as we are reminded every single day in our late capitalist dystopia.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The prospect of a global trade in carbon struck him as a panacea—a way of using capitalist methods for radical aims.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This laissez-faire capitalist approach to waste management comes with risks.
    Literary Hub, 8 July 2026
  • College football desperately needs some new guard rails put in place to manage all these new capitalist trends and forces.
    Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • His nod to the benefits of low taxes is in his crony capitalist vow to expand tax credits for the film industry.
    Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 31 May 2026
  • This is Harry Potter but with more capitalist satire and more Nazis.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • There was a tension throughout about creating art under a capitalist need to live and make money — rather than art just for art’s sake.
    Gina Tomaine, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • The band scarcely made a dent commercially, but that made sense, given its contempt for all things capitalist.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That gauging one’s goodness or worth by the rubric of productivity is a capitalist lie.
    Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The problem is that that no nurse can do the job of two nurses well, so care managed within such a rigid capitalist framework will inevitably be less safe.
    CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Why is that a capitalist enterprise?
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Gauging one’s goodness or worth by the rubric of productivity is a capitalist lie.
    Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Just capitalist investment and good will.
    John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The money-guzzling capitalist pig in a 1984 painting is a pig.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, the movie is about as anti-capitalist and anti-billionaire as a popcorn flick about magicians can be.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
  • That doesn’t feel like capitalist democracy.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This process unfolds through a classist, capitalist lens that categorizes people into the haves and the have nots.
    Rahkim Sabree, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But large-scale capitalist markets have long existed—in Rome, for fish sauce, of all things, or in China, for silk.
    Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • The language of social equity had come to seem like a cloak for a more brutal capitalist reality.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • People who’ve fallen through the cracks, and how greed within an ultra-capitalist system can lead to this kind of violence lower down the rung.
    Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Taking advantage of a wartime business boom, Japan took leaps forward as a capitalist country.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
  • With his venture capitalist hat on, Kulkarni is looking at this new era as one full of opportunity.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This involves a fundamental critique of capitalist systems’ power in our day-to-day lives.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 26 May 2026

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