How to Use oligarch in a Sentence

oligarch

noun
  • And there have been no new recordings of oligarchs grousing about the war.
    — Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024
  • This is the trickle-down rot from the fascist oligarchs in our streets.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Prigozhin, by then an oligarch of middling rank, saw an opening.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
  • He is being set up to fail by the team’s new owner to spite her oligarch ex-husband.
    — John Avlon, CNN, 22 July 2021
  • The oligarch will face an asset freeze and a travel ban across the bloc, diplomats said.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time the celebrity oligarch has waded into the health care space.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Serebrennikov does not mince words in his defense of the oligarch.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • And Zac was just a London kid, posing as the son of an oligarch.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And one of the things that has become clear to me is that [today’s] tech oligarchs aren’t going to stop on their own.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Their reward was the studio getting gobbled up by oligarchs, but still!
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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 Biden campaign, for its part, said that no such meeting between him and the oligarch took place.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Glushkov, 68, was close friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
    — David Brennan, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Many of the oligarchs backed Putin’s rise, and those who eventually turned on him didn’t end well.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Thieving cheap-ass tightwad oligarchs!
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Putin era has presented the watching world with the figure of the oligarch.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And a Ukrainian oligarch who hired Hunter at a princely sum to do nothing much.
    — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Amy is a bodyguard, works with billionaires and oligarchs, always on the other side of the world.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • France has seized a 280-foot super-yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.
    — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Might the oligarchs of the world know — or be warned — in advance of a nuclear apocalypse?
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 9 May 2026
  • To date, few Russian oligarchs have shown much appetite for standing up to Putin.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
  • The system, in other words, is working—for oligarchs like Elon Musk.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The gleeful oligarch emerged from jail pledging to overthrow Mr Nazarbayev.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But officials said the Kremlin has shown no interest in any deal that would free the oligarch.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The grouse here are at least spared the ignominy of being shot out of the sky by an oligarch—or David Beckham—dressed in spotless tweed.
    — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The oligarch came and went in his private jet and kept a spare jet in Anchorage in case another might be needed at short notice.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The oligarch was first put under sanctions by the United States in 2018.
    — Annabelle Timsit and Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
  • Some bureaucrats and oligarchs scrambled to leave Russia or depart from Moscow in the midst of the chaos.
    — Time, 30 June 2023
  • In 2014, the oligarch tried to get his money back, suing Manafort and his partners.
    — Rachel Weiner, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • His son won’t ask the sons of wealthy oligarchs to spot him 400 shekels for a prostitute, as Yair Netanyahu did.
    — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018

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