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a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2025
Learn: The conference lineup now includes former first lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson, along with Ben Stiller, DJ Zane Lowe and entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bryan Johnson.
—Nicole Cobler, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
His vivid account emphasizes New York’s roots in pluralism and a capitalist ethos while also tracing the roles of slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans in the city’s founding.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Business & Economics How Progressives Legalized Usury In the early twentieth century, reformers united with capitalists to promote high-interest lending, overthrowing opposition to usury rooted in Christian tradition.
—JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2025
Learn: The conference lineup now includes former first lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson, along with Ben Stiller, DJ Zane Lowe and entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bryan Johnson.
—Nicole Cobler, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
The movie perks up when Michael Keaton and Eva Green arrive as a ruthless impresario and his sensitive acrobat girlfriend, and Burton envisions his obvious Disneyland analog as a capitalist hellscape.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
His vivid account emphasizes New York’s roots in pluralism and a capitalist ethos while also tracing the roles of slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans in the city’s founding.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
Noun
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Children arrive into a trammeling grid of haves and have-nots set up long before their birth, a net that individual struggles serve only to tighten.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Behind the scenes, the information divide between baseball's haves and have-nots looks even larger as the talent divide on the field.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Sri Lanka worried that its economic recovery would be derailed as its clothing industry faced new tariffs from its most important export market.—
Time,
Time,
10 Apr. 2025
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Shearing also addressed the U.S. Federal Reserve's role amid the economic uncertainty.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That includes the opinion of an external specialist who will have a view, the league’s Databank (a system that includes all the information relating to the clubs’ commercial deals and player transfers) and the information Chelsea submit to the league as part of the transaction.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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In recent national headlines were a fatal crash of a tour helicopter in New York, a small plane that crashed in Florida and two commercial jets that clipped wings at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Britain had guns and jails and beer and gobs of money.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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But by 1987, Foreman was running out of money and opted to return to boxing after a decade away, coming back to the ring to raise money for his ministries, his website biography reads.—
Mark Puleo,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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From cable television magnates to fashion moguls to casino bosses, these billionaires have passed away since the 2024 Forbes list.—
Roy Canivel,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The tech magnate’s swipe at Navarro comes after a report that indicated Trump told his inner circle that Musk will be stepping back from his role in the government in the coming weeks.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Howery, who still needs the US Senate to confirm his position as ambassador to Denmark, is reportedly a long-time friend of billionaire Elon Musk and formerly founded a venture capital firm with Thiel.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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Trump changes tune as his billionaire supporters push back against tariffs While markets surged after Trump's pause announcement, uncertainty continues over what happens next.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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