as in haves
a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalists
These are the ultimate capitalists, pecking ruggedly at the earth’s skin and turning its lifeblood into piles of cash.
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare — the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
Both the president’s team and the rule-of-law defenders launched back-channel negotiations with the capitalists.
—Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Topping the California billionaires list, according to Forbes, are the founders and leaders of Silicon Valley’s technology giants — Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang of Nvidia — along with a constellation of venture capitalists and crypto executives.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
Venture capitalists started calling and encouraging us to start a company.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Some of us were born black, born from bad classes—the offspring of capitalists, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
And, as opposed to Bankman-Fried and countless other crypto founders, Yan and his team decided to eschew raising money from venture capitalists.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare — the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
Both the president’s team and the rule-of-law defenders launched back-channel negotiations with the capitalists.
—Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Topping the California billionaires list, according to Forbes, are the founders and leaders of Silicon Valley’s technology giants — Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang of Nvidia — along with a constellation of venture capitalists and crypto executives.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
Venture capitalists started calling and encouraging us to start a company.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Some of us were born black, born from bad classes—the offspring of capitalists, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
And, as opposed to Bankman-Fried and countless other crypto founders, Yan and his team decided to eschew raising money from venture capitalists.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalists
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As the use of ambient AI scribes becomes routine, some clinicians worry that the technology will widen the divide between health care haves and have-nots.—
Michelle Andrews,
ABC News,
26 Jan. 2026
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The term, popularized by the economist Peter Atwater, refers to the growing split, starting in 2020, between haves and the have-nots.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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America’s modern-day plutocrats, this bracing book contends, enjoy a similar privilege.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Capitalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalists. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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