zillionaire

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Recent Examples of zillionaire The platinum blond computer chip zillionaire was no match for 007! EW.com, 24 May 2025 For those who are not zillionaires, this type of planning (still not without risk) could be the mechanism that gets you comfortable taking steps to protect your assets. Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 He’s invited her along on a business trip, to the wilderness retreat of eccentric zillionaire Odell (Richard E. Grant), the head of a hugely lucrative pharmaceuticals company. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Mar. 2025 The businesspeople include a couple of zillionaires. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025 The creator of the Hero, a zillionaire tech mogul played by an oily, compelling Walton Goggins, has used his money and copious free time to become a real-life version of his own fictional, authoritarian crime-fighter. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023 The mission here is to save the world from its hideous near-future and to prevent time travel from being invented and exploited, for personal gain, by the all-powerful tech zillionaire played by Catherine Keener. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022 Can a tech zillionaire be funny? Jason Gay, WSJ, 9 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zillionaire
Noun
  • Mamdani’s plan to raise city income taxes by 2% on millionaires and shift property taxes toward the wealthiest, whitest, and most under-taxed neighborhoods could generate $4 billion a year to fund affordable housing.
    Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Join millionaire Jay Gatsby in his pursuit of former love, Daisy Buchanan, over the backdrop of lavish parties and social upheaval.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Rupert, on the other hand, instantly pals up with Freddie Jones (played brilliantly by Danny Dyer), an adorable electronics multimillionaire with a broad cockney accent who never tries to hide his working-class roots.
    Jilly Cooper, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Mignot’s early spot of the company helped turn him into a multimillionaire by the age of 30.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nina Franova | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is set to have a huge impact on the gaming industry and its billions of players, according to Min-Liang Tan, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of gaming firm Razer.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Edis, chief of the Landon family office and a protégé of its founder, the late swashbuckling billionaire Timothy Landon, who’s legendary as the chief political advisor to his military school chum, the sultan of Oman, notes that Swain gives Houlihan Lokey an extra edge.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But then Nathan informs Monty that Ariana won’t sign unless all three families get $1 million each, and the gazillionaire goes nuclear.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Dec. 2024
  • As the Dodgers officially welcomed their latest gazillionaire pitcher to a remodeling Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, the churning of the bulldozers in the infield was momentarily drowned out by the whining around the baseball world.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But Ellison — son of Oracle multibillionaire Larry Ellison — has routinely espoused taking a tech-forward Silicon Valley approach to managing a major media company, by using big data and automation.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Outside analysts say the acquisition figure appears high, but reflects the value that Skydance Media CEO David Ellison and his multibillionaire father Larry Ellison place on Weiss and her news site.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While Republicans focus on cozying up to tech plutocrats and removing the barriers around their business models, Democrats could revive the 2020 messaging of candidates like Andrew Yang and Elizabeth Warren.
    Nathan E. Sanders, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As a warning to plutocrats, a guillotine is hard to beat, but its symbolism goes beyond the obvious.
    Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Zillionaire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zillionaire. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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