billionaires

plural of billionaire

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Recent Examples of billionaires Regan rejected the findings of the report and cast doubt on the amount of taxes that billionaires actually pay in California. Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026 Billionaire boat boom South Florida is now home to 54 billionaires, according to Forbes rankings, with the majority of them in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties - some of the highest concentrations anywhere in the United States. Miami Herald, 25 July 2026 In his presentation, Rathlev noted the county’s wealth, citing the county’s resident billionaires and large companies. Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026 Built from more than 1,300 hours of interviews with over 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, the method reports a 90% hiring success rate, against the roughly 50% most managers achieve. Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 And while billionaires and millionaires are watching their bank accounts surge thanks to appreciating assets, others are scraping by to make ends meet. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 July 2026 The cohort includes billionaires Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, who all purchased Miami properties within a 60-day span this year. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 July 2026 Much of the American left seeks to counter Trump with a form of progressive populism that labels billionaires and oligarchs enemies of the people. Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026 But some California billionaires have no problem with the tax. Scott Cohn, CNBC, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaires
Noun
  • And while billionaires and millionaires are watching their bank accounts surge thanks to appreciating assets, others are scraping by to make ends meet.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 July 2026
  • But the southward wealth migration had already been set in motion, with Florida quadrupling its millionaires between 2010 to 2022.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 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
  • Indeed, antisemitisms prove that a society can hold contradictory images simultaneously, such as the fact that the Jews are both anarchists out to destroy capitalism as well as capitalists out to exploit the working class.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • But both shows are deeply suspicious of corporate infiltration of the government and how capitalists exploit xenophobia to gain power in America.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2026

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