billionaires

noun

plural of billionaire
as in millionaires
a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of billionaires Talarico, an Austin area state representative, has pitched himself as a candidate to bring Texans together —regardless of party — to take on billionaires and their influence in politics. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026 Adding to the surreal nature of the incident, Olson’s joke was about AI’s threat to jobs and how billionaires like Instagram’s parent company co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are complicit. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 Republicans, however, still have a leg to stand on from an unprecedented flood of outside super PAC cash, bankrolled by a tiny circle of billionaires led by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Taxing Musk, Bezos, and other billionaires does not touch the executives, boards, investment funds, and political machines that keep minting new ones. — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 The billionaires’ attack on the wealth tax initiative shows why it’s needed. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 That unaffordability, Talarico argued at the nighttime rally in Texas that was packed with younger voters, is because billionaires and corrupt politicians have rigged the system. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Just like all these data centers that the billionaires are throwing all over the place. — Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026 Only governments, tribal governments, and charities can make these stock gifts, so billionaires have to move their shares into a charity first. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
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  1. millionaires
  2. plutocrats
  3. capitalists
Noun
  • Cristobal Young, a sociology professor at Cornell University, said previous California tax increases on millionaires didn't lead to a mass exodus of wealthy people.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The latest in a long series of corrective measures was a thirteen-per-cent state income tax on millionaires, which went into effect in 2012 and is due to expire in 2030.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of millionaires
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  • Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.
    — Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Definition of plutocrats
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  • Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.
    — Garance Burke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Thompson then warned that San Francisco venture capitalists like Jones want to sunset federal programs and privatize Social Security.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of capitalists

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