billionaires

plural of billionaire

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Recent Examples of billionaires In contrast, if Prop 40 passes millions of people hurt by the federal tax cuts for billionaires will be helped. Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 With the volatile stock market generating huge gains in recent years for Connecticut’s millionaires and billionaires, residents at the other end of the economic spectrum are struggling. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026 No one seems to love the great outdoors as much as billionaires do. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 While tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen may see empathy and introspection as weaknesses, those traits are the beating heart of literature and art, the wellspring of creativity and human connection. Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026 China’s economic boom has produced fabulous wealth, including more than 800 billionaires. Alvin Camba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2026 One chart is especially timely, given the current debate over Proposition 40, a ballot measure that would impose a tax on the wealth of California’s approximately 200 billionaires. Dan Walters, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaires
Noun
  • With the volatile stock market generating huge gains in recent years for Connecticut’s millionaires and billionaires, residents at the other end of the economic spectrum are struggling.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Furthermore, millionaires should be more sensitive to tax differences between states than billionaires.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.
    Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
  • Then the plutocrats circled their yachts.
    Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • The moral of the story isn't really about socialism, though, but about the very real pain in store for American households from the bond market if the actually-in-charge capitalists don't get their act together.
    Matt Peterson, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
  • What’s interesting to me, though, is every generation since the original countercultural capitalists—the baby boomers—has expressed some version of this antipathy.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Billionaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billionaires. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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