as in multimillionaires
a rich person who has at least a million dollars, pounds, etc.
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Recent Examples of millionaires
Washington state also recently passed a millionaires' tax, while New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to add a 2% tax on residents who earn over $1 million.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
Instead of finding further savings opportunities or implementing cuts, the administration had focused on lobbying the state to implement options like raising income taxes for millionaires and hiking corporate tax rates.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
Gamage argued the warnings of mass exodus following Massachusetts’ 2022 millionaires’ tax and Washington’s 2021 capital gains tax hadn’t been borne out.
—Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
Massachusetts has seen an increase in millionaires, rather than a decrease, since the state enacted higher taxes on high earners, according to a report from the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
California is full of young people who were transformed into millionaires when crypto went mainstream.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Gilchrest, a social worker by training, spoke about wealth inequality, the ability of millionaires and billionaires to avoid taxes, and the widening gap between pay at the top and bottom of the average corporate salary range.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
Among Aztecs alums, there are many millionaires and even a number of billionaires.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
Instead of finding further savings opportunities or implementing cuts, the administration had focused on lobbying the state to implement options like raising income taxes for millionaires and hiking corporate tax rates.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
Gamage argued the warnings of mass exodus following Massachusetts’ 2022 millionaires’ tax and Washington’s 2021 capital gains tax hadn’t been borne out.
—Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
Massachusetts has seen an increase in millionaires, rather than a decrease, since the state enacted higher taxes on high earners, according to a report from the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
California is full of young people who were transformed into millionaires when crypto went mainstream.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Gilchrest, a social worker by training, spoke about wealth inequality, the ability of millionaires and billionaires to avoid taxes, and the widening gap between pay at the top and bottom of the average corporate salary range.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
Among Aztecs alums, there are many millionaires and even a number of billionaires.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for millionaires
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Still, in recent years, the relationship between the two billionaires has cooled.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Casar’s story touched on a subject close to Sanders’s heart, and not only because the senator dislikes it when billionaires get sweetheart deals.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Later, at the high-end Ned’s Club, venture capitalists rubbed shoulders with defense officials.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
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As depicted in the play, the Lehman family had its high achievers and its dreamers, its capitalists and its liberals.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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The gaslighting evil plutocrats who want everything own the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and other think tanks.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
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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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“Millionaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millionaires. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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