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He’s an unparalleled amasser of secret documents, inside facts, dazzling scoops.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2020

August Thyssen, 86, patriarch of Ruhr industrial barons, contemporary of the late Hugo Stinnes and the late Alfred Krupp, self-made amasser of $100,000,000; at his castle, Lindsborg, near Muehlheim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marie-Laure is not a collector in the way that Dr. Geffard was, an amasser, always looking to scurry down the scales of order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

To make a life of unparalleled achievement as an amasser of money terminate in glory is well within his power, but avarice is the chief occupant of his heart.

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.

The pitiless amasser of wealth, Turcaret, is himself the dupe of a coquette, who in her turn is the victim of a more contemptible swindler.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund