How to Use oligarch in a Sentence

oligarch

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  • And Zac was just a London kid, posing as the son of an oligarch.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Berezovsky, one of Russia’s first and best-known oligarchs, bought the chateau in the 1990s, paving the way for an influx of his wealthy countrymen to the area.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • No Russian oligarch would be caught dead in a thirty-five-foot yacht, even with the sanctions.
    — Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The 62-year-old Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch who emerged from the same wealthy and powerful circles as Putin.
    — Kim Bellware, Tobi Raji, Tamia Fowlkes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • To date, few Russian oligarchs have shown much appetite for standing up to Putin.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
  • During a private lakefront stroll, the oligarch offered him a seat on the board alongside Mr. Archer.
    — Katie Benner, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Smith despised cheater aristocrats and oligarchs, by the way.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • Who doesn’t want to stop Russian oligarchs and drug lords from laundering money in the U.S.?
    — Amber Gunn, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Some bureaucrats and oligarchs scrambled to leave Russia or depart from Moscow in the midst of the chaos.
    — Time, 30 June 2023
  • Prigozhin, by then an oligarch of middling rank, saw an opening.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
  • But officials said the Kremlin has shown no interest in any deal that would free the oligarch.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Now a wealthy oligarch, the close Putin ally previously served nine years in prison for robbery in his 20s.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Only a handful of Russian oligarchs bought property on the lake, and when war broke out in Ukraine, their mansions were seized.
    — Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
  • The Russian oligarch visited Saudi Arabia in August and met with the crown prince.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There, the press largely acts as a rubber stamp on behalf of oligarchs who run some of the least competitive companies in the world.
    — J.j. Colao, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The Russian oligarch is tied to hundreds of companies worldwide.
    — William Boston, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • More than one oligarch who once allied with Putin and then had a disagreement with him ended up falling out of high-rise buildings.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Did Kilimnik pass along the Trump campaign’s polling data to a Russian oligarch to whom Manafort owed millions?
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Russian oligarchs have had a fair number of their superyachts seized since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine more than a year ago.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
  • Julius Caesar was the last and most dramatic example, as he was stabbed by oligarch senators on the Senate floor.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • As the war went on, Ukrainian authorities cast a wider net in their prosecution of oligarchs.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Sanctions forced a few oligarchs to spend money inside the country, so real estate boomed.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Other top words from MW this year were oligarch, omicron, codify and queen consort.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich could soon lose $400 million worth of aircraft.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 June 2022
  • The team is owned by a billionaire oligarch who lavishes star players with more than $1 million in salary and benefits.
    — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Since its independence from Spain in 1821, Guatemala has been ruled by a series of dictators aligned with landowning oligarchs.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Auction houses, which had for more than a decade courted the Russian oligarchs, went into damage control.
    — Caitlin Moscatello, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The movie will tell the story of a Russian oligarch’s reckoning with the harsh reality of his family’s future.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In his wake, a Russian-Uzbek oligarch, Alisher Usmanov, bought control of the platform.
    — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Rybolovlev, however, is not among more than a dozen Russian oligarchs and their families who’ve been sanctioned by the United States.
    — Stacy Permanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023

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