ZILLIONAIRES Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

zillionaires

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plural of zillionaire

as in millionaires

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Noun

The pair found that about three-quarters of these millionaires started their own businesses, while the vast majority didn't inherit money.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Perhaps not surprising, some of these millionaires have stakes in investment firms or medical, dental, or legal practices.

— Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of millionaires

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The ep opened with Charles, played by Larry Dean, having a private chat with a pair of tech billionaires (Celeste Dring and newcomer Freddie Meredith, who is possibly an SNL Elon Musk) about AI at Buckingham Palace.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026
The number of billionaires could expand as SpaceX went public in June, with Anthropic planning its own IPO later this year and OpenAI potentially following next year.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of billionaires

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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
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

Definition of plutocrats

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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
Tulloch could command a high salary at another lab, or raise billions from venture capitalists for a startup of his own, like OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever or Google’s Jeff Dean did.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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