as in millionaire
a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.
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Recent Examples of billionaire
Trump donor Ackman & other billionaires are prepared to spend hundreds of millions to defeat Zohran.
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Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 July 2025
If Texas billionaire Elon Musk bought the app, his social media platform X would take over TikTok, with the two businesses running together, people close to the situation told Bloomberg.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The American billionaire had tried to buy Chelsea in 2022, but lost out to the consortium led by billionaire Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital.
—Robert Olsen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The billionaire investor is hoping to work with TSMC, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of computer chips, to build a $1 trillion Arizona industrial complex to build robots and AI, per Bloomberg.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
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Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 July 2025
If Texas billionaire Elon Musk bought the app, his social media platform X would take over TikTok, with the two businesses running together, people close to the situation told Bloomberg.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The American billionaire had tried to buy Chelsea in 2022, but lost out to the consortium led by billionaire Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital.
—Robert Olsen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The billionaire investor is hoping to work with TSMC, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of computer chips, to build a $1 trillion Arizona industrial complex to build robots and AI, per Bloomberg.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaire
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Someone is going to be a millionaire by the end of the evening.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
9 July 2025
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Anyone still laboring under the illusion that this is a populist administration needs to understand that ‘for the people’ means ‘only some of the people,’ usually the millionaires and billionaires.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
8 July 2025
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Meanwhile, the Astors, who had amassed a nearly obscene amount of real estate in New York City, became the country’s first multimillionaires by smuggling opium.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
3 July 2025
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Despite concerns among liberals, Lamont is a popular, two-term governor who self-funds his own campaigns as a Greenwich multimillionaire.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
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Elon Musk, the multibillionaire former Trump adviser, is threatening to primary GOP lawmakers and even start a new political party over his deficit concerns.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
2 July 2025
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Federal government head counts, meanwhile, fell by 9,000 and have declined by 26,000 since January, reflecting the impact of sweeping cuts largely driven by multibillionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency initiative.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
2 May 2025
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“Billionaire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billionaire. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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