as in magnate
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
an oil tycoon who's widely considered the most powerful man in the county
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Recent Examples of tycoon
Both are lavishly wealthy business tycoons who coveted, then achieved, rather late in life, the highest office in their land.
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Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
The ultra-rich have captured more of America’s wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the Gilded Age.
—Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Their decision quickly draws the attention of rival tycoons, international terrorists, and assassins.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
The ultra-rich have captured more of America’s wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the Gilded Age.
—Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Their decision quickly draws the attention of rival tycoons, international terrorists, and assassins.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tycoon
magnate
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This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Lauder, a billionaire, philanthropist and son of the makeup magnate Estée Lauder, founded the initiative in 2022 as a way to increase access to Jewish day schools in America.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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“Tycoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tycoon. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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