as in millionaire
a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.
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Recent Examples of billionaire
Crockett said Republicans have delivered massive tax breaks to billionaires while pulling nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare.
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
Nearly two months ago, AMC sold most of its Hycroft Mining stake to the gold and silver mine’s largest investor, Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott, who convinced AMC to join him in making their original investment in 2022.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
Forbes Valuation West was named a billionaire by Forbes in April of 2020.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
This is particularly true for any effort to increase income taxes, or levy a wealth tax, on the nation’s millionaires and billionaires.
—Gregory D. Squires, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2026
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
Nearly two months ago, AMC sold most of its Hycroft Mining stake to the gold and silver mine’s largest investor, Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott, who convinced AMC to join him in making their original investment in 2022.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
Forbes Valuation West was named a billionaire by Forbes in April of 2020.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
This is particularly true for any effort to increase income taxes, or levy a wealth tax, on the nation’s millionaires and billionaires.
—Gregory D. Squires, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaire
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The millionaires and the Metroplex North Texas has always had wealthy residents.—
Trevor Bach,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Between 2022 and 2024, the number of millionaires grew from 463,000 to more than 681,000, according to the IPS study.—
Gregory D. Squires,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Jan. 2026
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Powell, the 64-year-old former college star who now works as a deputy sheriff in Virginia, testified to years of abuse by Ernest Lorch, the multimillionaire director and coach of the once-vaunted Riverside program.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Getty invested in most of Newsom’s early businesses—wineries, restaurants, and hotels that steadily expanded the PlumpJack brand and turned the young entrepreneur into a multimillionaire long before he was sworn in as governor.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Jan. 2026
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Sources familiar with the thinking of Paramount Skydance and its financial backers, which include Larry Ellison, David’s multibillionaire father, say the company isn’t prepared to go higher than $30 a share (which is up more than 50% from its first $19-a-share proposal).—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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About half the money came from multibillionaire Pat Ryan.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
16 Jan. 2026
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One issue raised by the burgeoning controversy over the California proposal is how to extract a fair share of public revenue from plutocrats, whose wealth has surged higher while their effective tax rates have declined to historically low levels.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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The plutocrat and the socialist might sound like an odd pairing.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Billionaire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billionaire. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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