How to Use oligarch in a Sentence

oligarch

noun
  • Tot up the worth of every oligarch and divide the sum by 2.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • And Zac was just a London kid, posing as the son of an oligarch.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Putin era has presented the watching world with the figure of the oligarch.
    David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And there have been no new recordings of oligarchs grousing about the war.
    Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024
  • This isn’t the first time the celebrity oligarch has waded into the health care space.
    Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The young oligarch was at the absolute height of his powers.
    Eamon Javers, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The oligarch will face an asset freeze and a travel ban across the bloc, diplomats said.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The oligarch was first put under sanctions by the United States in 2018.
    Annabelle Timsit and Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
  • The Biden campaign, for its part, said that no such meeting between him and the oligarch took place.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • He is being set up to fail by the team’s new owner to spite her oligarch ex-husband.
    John Avlon, CNN, 22 July 2021
  • Berezovsky, one of Russia’s first and best-known oligarchs, bought the chateau in the 1990s, paving the way for an influx of his wealthy countrymen to the area.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • No Russian oligarch would be caught dead in a thirty-five-foot yacht, even with the sanctions.
    Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • France has seized a 280-foot super-yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.
    Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The 62-year-old Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch who emerged from the same wealthy and powerful circles as Putin.
    Kim Bellware, Tobi Raji, Tamia Fowlkes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • And a Ukrainian oligarch who hired Hunter at a princely sum to do nothing much.
    David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Serebrennikov does not mince words in his defense of the oligarch.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The grouse here are at least spared the ignominy of being shot out of the sky by an oligarch—or David Beckham—dressed in spotless tweed.
    Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
  • So one afternoon in the fall of 2015, Kostya brought me to meet Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch.
    Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
  • They were adept at moving money around the world, dealing with shady Russian oligarchs and the like.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • Biden’s farewell address warned of the danger of the influence of the nation’s tech CEOs and compared them to oligarchs.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The system, in other words, is working—for oligarchs like Elon Musk.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Amy is a bodyguard, works with billionaires and oligarchs, always on the other side of the world.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • The Atlantic Council looks at Russian oligarchs amid the Ukraine war for a 2 p.m. hybrid event.
    Brad Dress, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Pitt has filed a lawsuit against Jolie for selling her stake in a French vineyard the two co-owned to a Russian oligarch.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • To date, few Russian oligarchs have shown much appetite for standing up to Putin.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
  • In 2014, the oligarch tried to get his money back, suing Manafort and his partners.
    Rachel Weiner, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • During a private lakefront stroll, the oligarch offered him a seat on the board alongside Mr. Archer.
    Katie Benner, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The gleeful oligarch emerged from jail pledging to overthrow Mr Nazarbayev.
    The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Thiel and his fellow billionaire oligarchs want it all.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Its purpose was to enforce sanctions on Putin’s oligarchs.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025

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