Richest in a sentence

While Abiola was considered the richest Nigerian of his time before he died in custody in 1998, Aliko Dangote is currently not only the richest African but one of the richest in the world.

Asia's richest and the world's third richest man; Gautam Adani's introduction pans out like a typical rags-to-riches story.

Forrest was named Australia's richest man and second-richest person behind mining heiress Gina Rinehart in 2024.

Yanai, considered one of the richest — if not the richest — people in Japan, is the founder and CEO of Fast Retailing, the parent company of the Uniqlo clothing brand.

It has also been good to the richest people in the richest countries.

Such is very much the case with “The Richest Songwriters Of All Time,” in Investing.com. A financial site, it is focused on the main aspect of songwriting considered most important: Just how rich the richest songwriters?

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, and Warren Buffett, the third richest, are—not entirely coincidentally—two of the most unremittingly optimistic men on the planet.

He also quickly surpassed Bill Gates to become No. 1 on The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans—the first time since 1994 that Gates wasn’t the richest.

Wang Jianlin, founder of Wanda, was listed as the fourth-richest person in China and 26th-richest person in the world.

For comparison, the second richest college in Cambridge ( St. John's ) has an estimated endowment of around £500 million, and the richest college in Oxford (St.

According to The Resolution Foundation, the cost-of-living gap between the richest and poorest UK households is at its widest since records began in 2006.

Adani, 60, has since slid on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index from being the world’s third richest person to the 11th, as his net worth shrank more than $30 billion to an estimated $84 billion.

After becoming the world’s richest person in 2021, the Tesla and SpaceX boss saw over half of his net worth evaporate this year, boosting France’s luxury goods mogul Bernard Arnault into the top spot.

After Mr Musk dropped the idea of a Tesla buyout, the company overcame its production problems, resulting in a rapid upturn in car sales that caused its stock to soar and made Mr Musk the world’s richest person until he bought Twitter.

And as fucked up as it is, is that’s when people usually get the richest.

And we're one of the richest countries going and this is happening.

A real melting pot, the school draws kids from all 50 wards with both the richest and poorest kids in the city attending, and everything in between.

Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has announced plans to relaunch an iconic 1970s soda brand that once rivaled Coca-Cola and Pepsi, prompting a wave of nostalgia on social media among the millions of Indians who grew up drinking the beverage.

Asked whether he had any regrets about buying Twitter, the world’s second richest man said the “pain level has been extremely high, this hasn’t been some kind of party”.

Before his death, he was the country’s 23rd richest man, according to recent rankings of the magazine.