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adjective

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Recent Examples of capitalist
Noun
Venture capitalist David Sacks, who Trump tapped as his crypto and artificial intelligence czar, joined Trump in the Oval Office for the signing of the order. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025 Last month, Trump’s pick of the Silicon Valley venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as an AI adviser led to a bitter and very public spat between the two camps over visas for highly skilled immigrants. Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Today, the idea that investors and lenders will seek to maximize their profits at all costs looks to most of us like an obvious and morally neutral—or even positive—aspect of the capitalist system. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025 In no uncertain terms, Hwang is telling us that the grunts, the everyday people who suffer under capitalist institutions, will be forced to become the architects of their own liberation. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for capitalist 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
Noun
  • Like many aspects of the climate challenge, this one will also drive climate haves and have-nots further apart, especially as relatively safe regions emerge, and discerning buyers flock to their appreciating real estate markets.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • This piece requires a deeper explanation, one that reaches deep into the sport’s history of haves and have-nots.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The offer was intended to spur Black American economic prosperity post-Civil War.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Goller acknowledged China was unlikely to return to the explosive economic growth that first attracted foreign carmakers to flood into the country.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The basilica was a part of the larger forum, which served in London as the political, judicial, commercial and social hub of the city.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Other potential claims could rely on the right of publicity, which is popularly thought of in the context of NIL and which forbids the commercial use of another person’s identity without their consent.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But that money never makes its way to Hunter’s family.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The money was part of $110.8 million in cash deposits in the fund — a tiny fraction of the more than $620 million the Biden administration had disbursed for the mission.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Aga Khan's Legacy The Aga Khan was not only a religious figure but also evolved into a business magnate and philanthropist over the decades.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • All the while, Musk, the billionaire tech magnate who has never been elected to office or confirmed by the Senate for a high-level government job, is pushing a far-reaching agenda.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Dinklage will portray Leon Prater, a billionaire venture capitalist.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Trump administration has targeted USAID as the President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, seek to cut the size of the federal government.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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