as in have
a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
This is an incident that genuinely occurred in 1977, but its atmosphere of capitalist disillusionment, of the downtrodden violently rising against the smug and the wealthy, immediately seizes the contemporary imagination.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Companies emerging from the lab are often too far along for R&D grants but not far enough to meet the milestones venture capitalists expect.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Through the former, Arj meets Jeff (Seth Rogen), a venture-capitalist angel investor in tech companies.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
This is an incident that genuinely occurred in 1977, but its atmosphere of capitalist disillusionment, of the downtrodden violently rising against the smug and the wealthy, immediately seizes the contemporary imagination.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Venture capitalists erected their industry on the altar of profits, with perhaps a dash of rationalism.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Companies emerging from the lab are often too far along for R&D grants but not far enough to meet the milestones venture capitalists expect.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
Noun
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It’s been a year of haves and have-nots for the industrials, with companies heavily tied to data center construction, electrification, power generation, and aerospace largely outperforming the rest of the sector.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Things will get even worse since the AGI haves will presumably flourish in new ways and far outpace the AGI have-nots.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And, economic pain is one of our greatest motivators.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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China's economic slowdown steepens.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While commercial pilots are allowed to use iPads and electronic tablets in the cockpit to access navigation charts and checklists, the tone of the exchange sparked questions about situational awareness in a restricted airspace.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Now, the breakthrough at PNNL could free friction stir from those constraints—and open the door for increased use of the advanced manufacturing technique on commercial assembly lines.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing.—
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His daughter, philanthropist Mitzi Perdue, widow of the late poultry magnate Frank Perdue, is among the heirs selling the 104-acre spread for $15 million, co-listed with Compass agents Sean Bakhtiari and Colby Coppage.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
16 Sep. 2025
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The American Century that publishing magnate Henry Luce famously described in 1941 has to all intents and purposes come to an end.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Following Charlie’s death on the show, billionaire Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher) bought the house and filled out the trio.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Sep. 2025
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Even for a billionaire who was in the comparatively low-budget dictionary business less for profit than for fun, the bottom line mattered, and the pressure to make money and cut costs was inescapable.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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