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- noun Plural form of
philanthropist .
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Examples
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What always leaves me scratching my head about uber-rich philanthropists is why so many of their activities are so depoliticized.
Matthew Yglesias » Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, and Third World Farmers 2010
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What always leaves me scratching my head about uber-rich philanthropists is why so many of their activities are so depoliticized.
Matthew Yglesias » Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, and Third World Farmers 2010
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What always leaves me scratching my head about uber-rich philanthropists is why so many of their activities are so depoliticized.
Matthew Yglesias » Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, and Third World Farmers 2010
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A campaign to organize the campus against the Koch brothers and wealthy so-called "philanthropists" who seek to use their wealth to influence academia is under way.
Robert Greenwald: Are the Koch Brothers Teaching You? [VIDEO] Robert Greenwald 2012
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A campaign to organize the campus against the Koch brothers and wealthy so-called "philanthropists" who seek to use their wealth to influence academia is under way.
Robert Greenwald: Are the Koch Brothers Teaching You? [VIDEO] Robert Greenwald 2012
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It contains a clever demonstration of capitalism and a shrewd central irony: the philanthropists are the exploited workforce, because it is they who keep the rich in their big houses.
Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010
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In the avalanche of press coverage that's followed New Era's spectacular demise, the focus has fallen squarely on the big-name philanthropists who've been fleeced by what authorities say was a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
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Some of the organizations that have given money to those groups include a fund run by George Soros, the Oracle Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, big-name philanthropists and local community activists -- Lou.
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Of course there would be a grand howl among the so-called philanthropists at the mention of any plan on my part of selling at any rate above cost, witness the sensation produced by my letter to the _Evening Post_; but
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson
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I can give you instance after instance of men known as philanthropists whose riches come from sweated labor, and whose munificent charities form not one tithe of their inhuman profits drained from the lives of the very poorest.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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