gazillionaire --> bazillionaire (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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If I were looking for antedatings to terms like these, I might go to
Uncle Scrooge and Richie Rich comic books from the 1950s.

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>  From another list:
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> > But Bill Gates must be right, because, after all, he is a
> > bazillionaire, and everyone knows that bazillionaires know
everything
> > about everything. I mean, they must, because people keep putting
them
> > on task forces and inviting them to education summits in Aspen or
> > Hawaii and then calling them experts.
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> 300+K vs 13+K raw
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>      VS-)
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