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- noun Plural form of
Rockefeller .
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Examples
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She can get on that telephone and call the Rockefellers, the Fords and others, and they would listen to her.
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An example of why the Rockefellers are the Rockefellers.
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The bin Ladens have been called the Rockefellers of the Middle East, and the father, Mohammed, has reportedly amassed a $5 billion empire.
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He finally said, "You know, there are good books about the Rockefellers and there are bad books about the Rockefellers, but the best books about the Rockefellers are the ones that don't get written," meaning, of course, that this family was very anxious to protect its inner sanctum.
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John P.erpont Morgan also known as J.P. Morgan next to the Rockefellers was the most powerful individual and hegemon in American banking system, owner of Moran House and J.P. Morgan Company.
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The Man w/Dreadlocks: 'Cause the Rockefellers are a secret society, just like the Bushes, just like the bin Laudins, just like those pale, anemic sheik in Kuwait, Burundi--God and Allah and their chosen people; holy shit, what a bunch of scumbags.
From The Daily Growler City Room The Daily Growler 2006
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The moderate wing of the Republican Party disliked as "Rockefellers" by extrenist conservatives is cleaned out on the East Coast and in California, with the Midwest now problematic.
"It was on a blog, so I don't know if it's actually true..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Oil and "Rockefellers" had been cute and cunning in the conduct of their oil-selling to a degree greater than had been rival sellers of oil or of other necessities.
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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And as time wore on much more was heard of the cleverness of Standard Oil and "Rockefellers," as the victims of the cuteness and the cunning "hollered" in public places, and the newspapers and writers of books exclaimed against their practices and exactions.
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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The people knew that at the beginning it was only an aggregation of men, private individuals, who had accumulated much money by securing a monopoly of selling oil, and that these men were "Rockefellers," and that Standard
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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