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a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
And this central predicament allows the capitalist to split a worker’s activity into two forms.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Small farmers and peasants the world over endured dramatic transformations in the twentieth century and were subject to grand and ill-begotten experiments by capitalist and communist states alike.
—Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The Reuters report cites claims Howery, Thiel, and prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreesen are amongst the most prominent names backing the Greenland effort.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
And this central predicament allows the capitalist to split a worker’s activity into two forms.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Discovering this, avowed capitalist Nelson Rockefeller asked the artist to change or remove it.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Small farmers and peasants the world over endured dramatic transformations in the twentieth century and were subject to grand and ill-begotten experiments by capitalist and communist states alike.
—Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
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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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During periods of economic weakness when lending activity slows, consumers with high credit scores sometimes can take advantage of attractive offers.—
Russ Wiles,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Trump risks his approval rating falling the longer markets appear destabilized, US economic growth forecasts appear threatened, and the US dollar's dominance in global trade risks disruption.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 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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Youngkin in 2021 raised $2.2 million in contributions, but the millionaire investor bolstered his war chest with $5.5million of his own money, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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Third, protecting the tax payers money and resources.—
Kate Marijolovic,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Around the same time, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate magnate who has been heavily involved in the negotiations with Russia, mused about the possibilities for U.S.-Russian collaboration in an interview with the commentator Tucker Carlson.—
Stacie E. Goddard,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Zuckerberg, who was recently revealed as the buyer of a $23 million mansion with a 10-minute commute to the White House, is but the latest of the Silicon Valley magnates flocking to the area’s high-end homes, making ripples in the luxury real estate market as well as in politics.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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Steve Bannon questioned the accounting of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday, while also taking aim at the agency's billionaire leader Elon Musk.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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The move to shut down the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) comes as part of an unprecedented push by President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Musk to shrink the federal government, saying U.S. taxpayer money is misspent.—
Simon Lewis,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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