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a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalist
Joel Khalili, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
Venture capitalists and founders have been actively debating the impact of DeepSeek on Silicon Valley.
—Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Money is the bedrock of our capitalist system, but recent moves from the Trump administration have made that foundation feel a bit squishier.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
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Noun
But in an interview on January 23, venture capitalist David Sacks, appointed by Trump as the US AI and crypto czar, claimed that memecoins should be treated as a type of collectible, an unregulated asset class.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
Venture capitalists and founders have been actively debating the impact of DeepSeek on Silicon Valley.
—Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
—Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Money is the bedrock of our capitalist system, but recent moves from the Trump administration have made that foundation feel a bit squishier.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
Noun
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Come to think of it, Lt. Governor Millie would probably waste a lot less money than some of our actual LG’s have.—
Scott Maxwell,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2025
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His 2013 film Snowpiercer was another tale of haves and have-nots taken to fantastic, violent, and thrilling extremes.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Atlanta Federal Reserve model has also suggested that economic growth might be negative in Q1 2025.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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After a trip to Washington last month, during which South Korean officials asked the U.S. to exempt the country from any tariffs such as those recently placed on aluminum and steel, trade minister Ahn Duk-geun told reporters that the government needed to evaluate the plan’s economic viability.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Boeing had been developing the vehicle to join SpaceX's Dragon as a second operational spacecraft for NASA under the space agency's commercial crew program.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Though the investments may seem legitimate, criminals eventually disappear with the consumers’ money.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
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By revoking money from global-health efforts, the U.S. has created the conditions for the health of people around the world to deteriorate, which will give tuberculosis even more opportunities to kill.—
John Green,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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FedEx is suing Donald Trump-supporting pillow magnate Mike Lindell for nearly $9 million in unpaid delivery fees.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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The project soon attached Ed Harris to play James, a celebrated actor but failed property magnate.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But the president’s wide-ranging push to slash government spending, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is weakening the federal office charged with implementing the No Surprises Act.—
Noam N. Levey,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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More than one-third of the total came from billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts, with Trump’s blessing, to slash the federal headcount.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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