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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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