plutocrat

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Recent Examples of plutocrat Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats. Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 The provenance of an otherwise unknown plutocrat probably does not. Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 His father, Richard, a plutocrat who offers him a job at his company, is equally distressing. Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The issue is the policy infrastructure that allows people like Musk to become not rich, not super-rich, but plutocrat-rich. Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026 Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors. Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 Then the plutocrats circled their yachts. Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 The Titanic is still a subject of worldwide fascination, in part because of the range of passengers aboard the ship, from paupers to plutocrats. Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocrat
Noun
  • In a weekend post responding to Amodei's essay, Sacks, a venture capitalist with investments in AI startups, said the two leading model developers should police themselves rather than asking the government to do it.
    Lora Kolodny,Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • But, overall, this didn't seem to be primarily a story of rich capitalists investing money and then sitting on their keisters while their capital generated returns for them.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • His image suggests an instinct for how a certain can’t-have-it distance is a condition of cool and bankability.
    David Lê, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And is a 165-pound back your best north-south option on a gotta-have-it conversion when Micah Welch, who outweighs Taylor by 50 pounds, could hammer it home?
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The shipping magnate led Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005, steering it through the Asian financial crisis, deadly SARS outbreak and massive protests over a controversial anti-treason law.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The President, who likes his steak well done and slathered in ketchup, met with a Brazilian beef magnate named Joesley Batista, who in the past had admitted to making large payments to public officials and was briefly jailed.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Gillette Stadium, which is owned by Jewish billionaire Robert Kraft, was one such venue where Macklemore was scheduled to perform.
    Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2026
  • That’s despite fears of the tax surfacing among billionaires in late 2025.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

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“Plutocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocrat. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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