Example Sentences

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The Wall Street Journal’s Gunjan Banerji is sitting down with business magnates, financial titans and upstarts from all walks of life to answer your questions about how they made their fortunes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Americans are well accustomed to ridiculously wealthy magnates assuming the same pose at their desks, or as Richard Branson did, on national TV.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025

St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024

The suburb they had their sights on was the affluent lakefront district of the auto magnates: Grosse Pointe.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides