as in magnate
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
an oil tycoon who's widely considered the most powerful man in the county
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Recent Examples of tycoon
Two other sharks, Nirav Tolia, the co-founder of Nextdoor, and Kevin O’Leary, a software tycoon, were convinced.
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Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Set in the lead up to Egypt’s 2011 revolution, which ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship, the film was inspired by the real-life 2008 murder of singer Suzanne Tamim, and murky attempts to protect the powerful real estate tycoon behind her death, who has since been pardoned by Al-Sisi.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2025
But managing type-A influencers and business tycoons is only part of the job.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
Larry Ellison, the Oracle software tycoon and multibillionaire, used to be a keen offshore racer, leading his maxi yacht Sayonara to Line Honors victories in 1995 and in the fateful 1998 race.
—Andrew Rice, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
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magnate
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Singer island is so named after Paris Singer, a descendant of the Singer Sewing Machine magnate, who began developing the Palm Beach coastline into a national luxury destination in the 1920s.—
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O’Leary isn’t the only nonprofessional in Marty Supreme’s sprawling cast, which includes rapper Tyler the Creator, real-life table-tennis champion Koto Kawaguchi, filmmaker Abel Ferrara, and supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis.—
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“Tycoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tycoon. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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