as in wealth
the total of one's money and property
in some parts of the city nearly unimaginable opulence can be found side by side with nearly unthinkable poverty
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Recent Examples of opulence
Embrace her opulence without taking out a bank loan with these gemstone nails.
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Christina Perrier, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
And tours of the Owens-Thomas House and its slave quarters capture an ugly history in which genteel opulence and oppression existed side by side in Savannah.
—Adam Kuehl, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
There’s a delectable tension between its chintziness and its opulence, forcing the mind to color in the spaces of its grand visages.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
The American clan wallows in a life of pointless opulence in a Spanish villa, discussing designer clothes and snarking at servants and each other.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
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Christina Perrier, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
And tours of the Owens-Thomas House and its slave quarters capture an ugly history in which genteel opulence and oppression existed side by side in Savannah.
—Adam Kuehl, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
There’s a delectable tension between its chintziness and its opulence, forcing the mind to color in the spaces of its grand visages.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
The American clan wallows in a life of pointless opulence in a Spanish villa, discussing designer clothes and snarking at servants and each other.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opulence
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Michael Bluth is exceptional because of the wealth his family used to enjoy, but also because of his seeming—and, to be fair, intermittently absent—levelheadedness despite the bubble in which the rest of his family still stubbornly, tenuously lives.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Motives centers around Detective Izzy Morgan (Vasquez), a relentless investigator pulled into a dark and intricate case that exposes the hidden violence beneath wealth and privilege.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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Amazon’s stock has rallied since the attacks on its Gulf assets, with analysts suggesting enterprises will stop relying on a single location for data deployment and that, in turn, will drive up cloud revenues as companies are forced to pay for more storage, according to TechPolicy Press.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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What gold assets make the most sense to consider right now, though, before the price has a chance to tick back up?—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Opulence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opulence. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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