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  • noun Plural form of zillionaire.

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Examples

  • United Arab Emirates -- Gervais rubbed people the wrong way: "It's only natural to take a certain amount of creepy joy in watching a collection of coddled and cosseted zillionaires squirm in their fancy clothes as a shrieking and cackling English comedian takes them all down a peg or two," says Rob Long in The National.

    Danny Groner: Ricky Gervais' Defenders Around the World Danny Groner 2011

  • Russian zillionaires outnumber wealthy Frenchmen in purchasing lofty seaside estates there.

    Jay Weston: Authentic Bouillabaisse on Bastille Day at South Coast Plaza Jay Weston 2011

  • To all of you "the law is the law" types, I would say that I, along with Deeter perhaps, value the fishery much more than the "property rights" of out of state zillionaires.

    Does Catch and Release Reduce Trespassing Offense? 2009

  • United Arab Emirates -- Gervais rubbed people the wrong way: "It's only natural to take a certain amount of creepy joy in watching a collection of coddled and cosseted zillionaires squirm in their fancy clothes as a shrieking and cackling English comedian takes them all down a peg or two,"says Rob Long in The National.

    Danny Groner: Ricky Gervais' Defenders Around the World Danny Groner 2011

  • Virgin Galactic zillionaire Richard Branson is looking to turn space tourism into a leisure activity for the wealthy, whereas now it is simply a leisure activity for fellow zillionaires.

    SpaceShipTwo! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009

  • Russian zillionaires outnumber wealthy Frenchmen in purchasing lofty seaside estates there.

    Jay Weston: Authentic Bouillabaisse on Bastille Day at South Coast Plaza Jay Weston 2011

  • Drum didn't conduct a scientific survey, but it's suggestive that in terms of lifestyle, if not political goals, a $100K wage earner actually feels somewhat closer to the zillionaires than to someone barely scraping by.

    Inequality among the rich in one graph and one thought experiment Ezra Klein 2011

  • To all of you "the law is the law" types, I would say that I, along with Deeter perhaps, value the fishery much more than the "property rights" of out of state zillionaires.

    Does Catch and Release Reduce Trespassing Offense? 2009

  • United Arab Emirates -- Gervais rubbed people the wrong way: "It's only natural to take a certain amount of creepy joy in watching a collection of coddled and cosseted zillionaires squirm in their fancy clothes as a shrieking and cackling English comedian takes them all down a peg or two," says Rob Long in The National.

    Danny Groner: Ricky Gervais' Defenders Around the World Danny Groner 2011

  • They probably were planned in the days when hedge fund zillionaires ruled the world, when the Dow Jones average ran past 14,000, before the recession, before the Gulf oil spill, before the trillion-dollar deficits.

    Too Much Ain't Enough 2010

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