as in tycoon
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
movie moguls promising to turn young actresses into stars
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Recent Examples of mogul
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul who had a near-constant presence in the tumultuous early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second-term administration, is stepping down from his official senior adviser role at the White House.
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 29 May 2025
When escorting Combs back to his room, Florez testified, the mogul offered him a stack of money in exchange for staying silent about the altercation.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 29 May 2025
The government has already established that several of Combs’ employees and people on his payroll saw the mogul physically abusing Ventura over the course of their relationship.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
The first serious conversations about change came in 2008 after real estate mogul Sam Zell took over the team, which was part of Tribune Co., and looked into the possibility of adding video.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 29 May 2025
When escorting Combs back to his room, Florez testified, the mogul offered him a stack of money in exchange for staying silent about the altercation.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 29 May 2025
The government has already established that several of Combs’ employees and people on his payroll saw the mogul physically abusing Ventura over the course of their relationship.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
The first serious conversations about change came in 2008 after real estate mogul Sam Zell took over the team, which was part of Tribune Co., and looked into the possibility of adding video.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mogul
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Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Apart from the sale of primary shares, Maynilad Water Holding—which counts Metro Pacific, tycoon Isidro Consunji’s DMCI Holdings and Japan’s Marubeni Corp. among its shareholders—will sell 354.7 million shares at the IPO price, raising an additional 7.1 billion pesos in a secondary offering.—
Ian Sayson,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Lauder, a billionaire, philanthropist and son of the makeup magnate Estée Lauder, founded the initiative in 2022 as a way to increase access to Jewish day schools in America.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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“Mogul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mogul. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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