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Example sentences for: magnate

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Dispatched to the south of Italy by a magnate named Greenleaf seeking the return of his wastrel son Dickie (Jude Law), the working-class Ripley has to pretend he's an old Princeton classmate.
In the Sunday Telegraph , interviewer Helena de Bertodano said that her first meeting with Brown had been "tense" because a "PR magnate, an elderly man with a cut-glass English accent" had insisted on sitting in on their conversation but that Brown subsequently arranged a one-on-one meeting for the next day.
The letters were purchased for $156,000 by a software magnate, who promptly announced that he might return the notes to Salinger.
The rugged coast continues south for another 65 miles (105 km) along to San Simeon, where William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate immortalized by Orson Welles in the film Citizen Kane, built his unbelievable dream castle on a hilltop high above the sea.
This elaborate church was built by silver magnate Joseph Borda as a show of his appreciation to the town and to the Almighty for the wealth he accumulated here.