How to Use capitalist in a Sentence

capitalist

1 of 2 noun

• The three-and-a-half-mile trail is a favorite of the prosecutor turned venture capitalist, but Haun wasn’t out for leisure.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the role of Loewen, Bill Camp plays up the real man’s capitalist, dog-eat-dog mentality.
  — Tomris Laffly, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• By the next day on March 9, venture capitalists and others had withdrawn some $40 billion from the bank.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Making a career as a venture capitalist is a route that many couldn’t imagine just a few decades ago.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• As a venture capitalist, Struck says his job is to think about what the world will look like in 10 years, and invest accordingly.
  — Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Advertisement Instead, the start-ups will get to keep their money, to the relief of the venture capitalists who fund them.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• So venture capitalists [VCs] and the start-up world are very good at two very interesting things.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
• Faced with a choice between another landowning capitalist and a spaceport, the crofters tend to side with the spaceport.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• Damian here with the plight of the venture capitalist, an idea for Gilead Sciences, and the latest in the quest to find potent treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 25 Jan. 2024
• The consumer is the parent, who forks over thousands of dollars a year to a local club and expects, like all good capitalists, a positive ROI.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, one of the project’s initial backers, joined in 2018.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
• David Titus, a prominent local venture capitalist, lawyer and startup mentor, was among the co-founders of the bank back in the early 1980s.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• Venture capitalists are some of the most powerful people on the planet.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Venture capitalists fueled its rise with billions of dollars to rent up real estate around the world and lease it back to workers.
  — Lynn Doan, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• There are these two venture capitalists who want to start [a fish farm] there and the majority of the people who live by this fjord don’t want it and have been protesting in the streets and started a legal case.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• And the outcome there may signal the powerful role that capitalists and entrepreneurs will play in shaping AI’s future.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
• The small capitalists are trying to be the bigger capitalists.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 June 2023
• As face wash does not cost a lot to make—the real cost is in the marketing—and beauty companies have the potential to scale, both of which are attractive to venture capitalists.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Paris married Carter Reum, a venture capitalist, in 2021.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• For the biography, venture capitalist Peter Thiel told Isaacson that Musk was addicted to the thrill of risk.
  — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• The consensus is no, but venture capitalist Vinod Khosla adds an asterisk to that thought.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Too much money leads founders to take extra risks, often being prodded by venture capitalist who wanted to see growth at all costs.
  — Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The other, Josh McFarland, a venture capitalist, gave a business pep talk.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The center was renamed after venture capitalist Howard Cox and his wife, Wendy, made a $20 million donation.
  — Amanda Gordon, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• We are taught as consumers of art and as consumers in general — just living in the West and being capitalists — that consumption always begets pleasure.
  — Caroline Ellen Liou, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Money poured in to drug companies by the billions — from venture capitalists, the stock market, the National Institutes of Health.
  — Catherine Carlock — Boston Globe, STAT, 16 Mar. 2024
• Just scan the list of sources Isaacson includes in the book: executives, venture capitalists, founders and high-ranking engineers.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• His father, a venture capitalist, now splits his time between Atlanta and Nigeria.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Venture capitalist Chris Dixon argues that blockchain technology could kick-start a creative new era of the internet.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
• Today, start-ups and venture capitalists shop around for the best bank, instead of automatically going to SVB, Nivard said.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024

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capitalist

2 of 2 adjective

• That’s the other side of it: There’s the religious side and then the capitalist side.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The draft, for its wonder and spectacle, is the most anti-capitalist thing the NFL does.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
• What Jung achieves in that first half of the film is to paint a portrait of a gamified capitalist system.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• In many ways this is a huge win for their anti capitalist agenda.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• The money-guzzling capitalist pig in a 1984 painting is a pig.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Dust Bowl comes out of this period of 1920s capitalist expansion and very, very high utilization of land in the high plains.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• Simply put, their economic system had never been able to compete with that of the U.S. or the capitalist West as a whole.
  — Sean T. Byrnes, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
• The prospect of a global trade in carbon struck him as a panacea—a way of using capitalist methods for radical aims.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Something that struck me about this book in relation to your other work was the overt anti-capitalist theme.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• But large-scale capitalist markets have long existed—in Rome, for fish sauce, of all things, or in China, for silk.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• The problem is that that no nurse can do the job of two nurses well, so care managed within such a rigid capitalist framework will inevitably be less safe.
  — CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
• India, like other capitalist states, has turned its back on any notion of seeking the common good for all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• There was a tension throughout about creating art under a capitalist need to live and make money — rather than art just for art’s sake.
  — Gina Tomaine, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Of the top candidates, author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance has ponied up the smallest amount at just over $1 million from his campaign.
  — cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• People who’ve fallen through the cracks, and how greed within an ultra-capitalist system can lead to this kind of violence lower down the rung.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2022
• That idea came to dominate how companies were viewed throughout America, and much of the capitalist world, for decades.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 30 May 2023
• The crowd crush incident was an acute example of the capitalist premise that the suffering of some becomes less important in the face of profit for others.
  — Hazlitt, 23 Aug. 2023
• The band scarcely made a dent commercially, but that made sense, given its contempt for all things capitalist.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the ultra-capitalist world of The Boys, every superhero also headlines their own franchise.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 June 2022
• Social media feels like it’s on that the journey, the inevitable capitalist journey of everything.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
• Seattle venture capitalist Birkan Uzun, 28, fell in a tree well two months earlier.
  — Garrett Andrews, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2022
• In a capitalist economy, the demand would come first, followed by investment to build the capacity to meet it.
  — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• As its capitalist metaphor suggests, the ideal maintains that only in a free and open encounter of opposing ideas can truth and freedom prevail.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2023
• The language of social equity had come to seem like a cloak for a more brutal capitalist reality.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• One of the things that make the machine of the capitalist state work is that some of its powers have been devolved upon other artificial agents—corporations.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• This new worker was promising to be the force that would propel Soviet Russia ahead of its western capitalist rivals.
  — Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Pullman famously built a company town south of Chicago, on the shores of Lake Calumet, that was supposed to usher in a utopian capitalist future.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• Is this girl just a wimpy Gen Z learning about the realities of surviving in our capitalist society?
  — Meg Walters, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• As a result, Sturges’s childhood was marked by whiplash: between home and Europe, between a rigid capitalist ethic and a sybaritic salon culture.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• What is Beyoncé going to do to stop a capitalist structure?
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024