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someone who is wealthy and powerful in business- She is an oil magnate.
- Then newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reportedly issued a two-word order to his editors: "Puff Graham."Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- You have the air of a disgruntled magnate.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Retired coffee magnate, you see, Malayan valet, lives in opulence.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- The swarthy Greek shipping magnate is more than twenty years older than Jackie, and three inches shorter.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- Becky had met other Hungarian magnates with the army in France in 1816-17.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them!Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- I wondered what Rachel had told her father—a fabulously wealthy real estate magnate—to convince him she needed to borrow a helicopter.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- 'Cornelius,' the founder of the family, was the first of the great American magnates of commerce.G. K. Chesterton -- The Fallacy of Success
- A few minutes sufficed to whirl us to the superb house in Park Lane rented by the American magnate.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- The girl thought the arrogance and granite-heartedness of the magnate of the play was very accurately drawn.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- "What about the bushes, Luke?" yelled Mr. Halloran, the dairy-lunch magnate.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- He was clerk to one of the magnates of a great steel corporation, and was looked upon in Cordelia Street as a young man with a future.Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
- There, however, my eye fell once more on the magnate of poetry, although he had been put on a chest of drawers at one side of the room.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- 'I am told,' said Bishop magnate to Horse Guards, 'that Mr Merdle has made another enormous hit.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- He had been thinking all the time of his "pull" with the racetrack magnates.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- The water magnate was scowling, concentrating on his dinner.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- When he was told that a local magnate had said no one would take him for a City man, he felt that he had not lived in vain.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- He had his friend with him, you know, the chocolate magnate.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
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