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a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
The capitalist urge to optimize and market everything, even our late night choices, are trotted out astutely in the New York article.
—Andrew Pasquier, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Brian Shortsleeve, a venture capitalist and former MBTA official running to challenge Healey next year, is trying to play up the results of a local survey of Republicans down the South Shore this past week.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
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Noun
This enclosure of our physical wandering is now mirrored in capitalist technology’s latest enclosure of our thinking routes.
—Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
The capitalist urge to optimize and market everything, even our late night choices, are trotted out astutely in the New York article.
—Andrew Pasquier, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Brian Shortsleeve, a venture capitalist and former MBTA official running to challenge Healey next year, is trying to play up the results of a local survey of Republicans down the South Shore this past week.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
Noun
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Deadline understands that two companies that didn’t make the final three have, in fact, scored separate developments with the streamer.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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Hardy led the way in rushing with 138 yards and a have-to-see-it-to-believe-it touchdown.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Gold has long been considered a risk-off asset for investors that can provide refuge during times of economic and political turmoil.—
Kevin Breuninger,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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David Rosenberg, founder of the economic and market insights firm Rosenberg Research, similarly highlighted flaws with the gauge, including the use of GDP, which includes government sector activity that isn’t tied to corporate profits or future earnings.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As a warning to plutocrats, a guillotine is hard to beat, but its symbolism goes beyond the obvious.—
Paul Kingsnorth,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, the commercial space industry is booming, with a growing number of launch providers deploying constellations of satellites to orbit.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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The building is expected to have 226 apartments, 102,000 square feet of office space, and about 11,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Is intuitive budgeting effective for saving money?—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.—
Roy Trakin,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Known as the Uplands Mansion, the palatial home was built in 1917 for the grandson for railroad magnate Charles Crocker.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Putin was portrayed as an unsightly troll, who, by an act of magic—a spell cast by the puppet version of Boris Berezovsky, the magnate who helped engineer his rise to the Presidency—comes to appear beautiful and virtuous, the subject of great adulation and deference.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Running in parallel to the storylines of Piccard and Jones is the global race of the time where many prominent figures, from accomplished aviators to billionaire Richard Branson, were trying to become the first around-the-globe balloonists.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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Almereyda, having penned the screenplay, will center the Zero K adaptation on a young man drawn into the designs of his tech billionaire father in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to outwit death using cryonics and radical science.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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