zillionaire

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Recent Examples of zillionaire The businesspeople include a couple of zillionaires. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025 The creator of the Hero, a zillionaire tech mogul played by an oily, compelling Walton Goggins, has used his money and copious free time to become a real-life version of his own fictional, authoritarian crime-fighter. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023 Can a tech zillionaire be funny? Jason Gay, WSJ, 9 May 2021 Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Mar. 2022 The mission here is to save the world from its hideous near-future and to prevent time travel from being invented and exploited, for personal gain, by the all-powerful tech zillionaire played by Catherine Keener. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022 Among the tech zillionaire classes, a place to bug out in the event of an economic collapse, environmental disaster or violent uprising became the thing to have. Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019 So, Jenny and Ken are boneheads and still think Fox is Jamie Foxx, because clearly in their world an Oscar-winning zillionaire needs to grovel for minor coins on this trash. Robbie Daw, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019 Gwyneth Paltrow plays Payton’s mom with a benevolent glow; the family also includes a gerbil-like zillionaire father (Bob Balaban) and Payton’s two older brothers, a set of toxic jocks with popped collars. Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zillionaire
Noun
  • The highest number of millionaires came from the United States (173 millionaires), Japan (149), and South Korea (130), followed by China with 112 millionaires.
    Michele Robson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • That's a lot more than the 1,800 millionaires Oregon had back in 2010.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As stock owners and multimillionaires abound in Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties, fears of insider trading and conflicts of interest have lingered.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Then, in something of a shock, Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey was defeated by a private equity multimillionaire who doesn’t really live in the state and can’t tell the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers apart.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trump, Elon Musk claim fraud within SSA President Donald Trump and his senior advisor, billionaire Elon Musk, have both raised concerns about potential fraud within the SSA.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The terminations at the tax agency were among the deep cuts to federal agencies by the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency, led by the billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But then Nathan informs Monty that Ariana won’t sign unless all three families get $1 million each, and the gazillionaire goes nuclear.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Dec. 2024
  • As the Dodgers officially welcomed their latest gazillionaire pitcher to a remodeling Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, the churning of the bulldozers in the infield was momentarily drowned out by the whining around the baseball world.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Musk is the multibillionaire tech executive who has become a close ally of President Donald Trump, heading up the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has laid off thousands of U.S. government employees and shut down federal programs in a matter of weeks.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the combination of Trump’s still-evolving tariff agenda and the massive job cuts sought by Musk, his multibillionaire adviser, have raised the twin specters of higher unemployment and higher prices, with increasing invocations of stagflation.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Zillionaire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zillionaire. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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