billionaires

plural of billionaire

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Recent Examples of billionaires The incumbent who has sought and accepted millions in special interest campaign donations strained to paint Bronin as a tool of billionaires. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026 Rosenwald’s myriad achievements provide a chastening contrast to today’s billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 Proposition 40, which would impose the tax on billionaires’ assets, has reached the precipice of nationwide debates over economic inequality and liberal overreach. Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 14 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 Potential OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs could mint a new generation of billionaires—and sports investors. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026 The opposition to Prop 40 may in some ways be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as billionaires including Brin shift business entities out of California in favor of states without similar wealth taxes. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 But 5 miles outside of the historic downtown, workers are building a first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026 There is a reason why the super PACs and the billionaires are flooding Minnesota with all kinds of money, same thing as Michigan. CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaires
Noun
  • The statue was commissioned by local millionaires Roman and Grażyna Karkosik.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The first referendum is whether Illinois should impose a surcharge on millionaires to raise public school funding.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 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
  • 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
  • If enough people are angry at the greedy capitalists and find a rationale to blame them for their woes, the idea of socialism becomes more attractive.
    Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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