How to Use billionaire in a Sentence
billionaire
noun
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The drop has erased all of the billionaire’s wealth gains this year.
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Lionel Lim,
Fortune Asia,
21 Nov. 2024
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Did a billionaire buy Clarence Thomas part of the moon?
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Laura L. Davis,
USA TODAY,
4 May 2023
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But the billionaire seems to have soured on the company.
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Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Jan. 2024
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And to be clear, the singer’s sympathies do not lie with the billionaire.
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Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
27 July 2024
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David Booth, a billionaire from Austin, is funding a chunk of it.
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Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
15 July 2023
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Even in a place that’s used to the way billionaires behave, it’s raised some eyebrows.
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Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2024
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Bill Gates is not engaged to Paula Hurd, a rep for the billionaire confirms.
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Abigail Adams,
Peoplemag,
18 July 2023
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Twitter laid off half of its staff when billionaire Elon Musk took the reins.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
5 Jan. 2023
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But Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire keeping an eye on the field.
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Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
16 July 2024
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The one team that doesn’t have a private, billionaire owner (Packers) ranked No. 6 and had A’s and B’s across the board . . .
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Ben Volin,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Mar. 2023
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Smith referred to Schultz as a billionaire in passing and Schultz howled in pain.
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Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
29 Mar. 2023
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Cops always can tell when a billionaire is behind the wheel.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Nov. 2023
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And even for a billionaire, that quality comes with a cost.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune Crypto,
10 Apr. 2023
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Snoop Dogg took a page out of the Tesla billionaire’s playbook by posting a poll of his own.
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Neena Rouhani,
Billboard,
19 Dec. 2022
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Peter Seidler is a billionaire who wants to go to the World Series.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Dec. 2022
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Case in point: Joe Lewis, 86-year-old British billionaire, just couldn’t help himself.
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Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Feb. 2024
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And in August 2021, Forbes announced that the beauty and fashion mogul had joined the billionaire's club.
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Tre'vaughn Howard,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2023
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The Empire State has lost 10 billionaires in the past four years, and those moves have hurt New York's bottom line for tax revenue.
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Jack Birle,
Washington Examiner,
11 Nov. 2023
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The steep price tag narrows the pool of buyers to a handful of tech companies and billionaires.
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Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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The largesse came courtesy of Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire and longtime friend of Thomas’ and his wife.
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Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2023
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Now, the billionaire who purchased the franchise ahead of the 2021 season hopes to build attractions around the team's home ballpark in Queens.
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Chantz Martin,
Fox News,
12 Oct. 2023
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Bezos is far from the only billionaire who’s moved in search of more tax-friendly skies.
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Phoebe Liu,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Magazine that giving away the bulk of his fortune has long been the billionaire’s plan.
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Maria Pasquini,
Peoplemag,
24 May 2023
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Rather, Jared Isaacman is a tech billionaire who dropped out of high school to start his company and is now in the vanguard of the new Space Age.
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Christian Davenport,
Washington Post,
2 Oct. 2022
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Who needs to be a damn billionaire when people are starving?
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Scott Huver,
Peoplemag,
6 Oct. 2022
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Becoming a billionaire was not what the Black Panthers had in mind.
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Ashley D. Farmer,
Harper's BAZAAR,
16 Nov. 2022
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Here are the 10 billionaires living in Kansas and Missouri.
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Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 Apr. 2024
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Main Street: When a billionaire becomes a dissident, the takeover of Hong Kong is complete.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
15 Dec. 2023
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Gregg, who previously starred in Netflix’s Painkiller, portrays billionaire Robert Lyndon, who plays a crucial role in the attack.
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Raven Brunner,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Musk's comments drew the ire of German politicians, and Chancellor Scholz accused the billionaire of interfering in Germany's elections.
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Chris Massaro,
Fox News,
22 Feb. 2025
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