"one-percenter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "one + percent + -er. After Thomas Edison: \"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.\" The motorcycling sense comes from a supposed 1948 statement by the American Motorcycle Association that 99% of motorcyclists are good people enjoying a clean sport, and it is only 1% who are antisocial.",
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          "ref": "2000, E. Ray Canterbery, Wall Street Capitalism: The Theory of the Bondholding Class, page 138:",
          "text": "An upper one-percenter in the income and wealth distributions, Rubin commuted by private jet between the tony Jefferson Hotel in Washington and his Park home in New York.",
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          "ref": "2002, Bill Press, Spin This!: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth, page 17:",
          "text": "When critics pointer out that the bulk of his tax cut went to the wealthiest one percent of American […], after Bush got finished spinning, it's amazing how many Americans ended up feeling sorry for those poor, deprived one percenters.",
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          "ref": "2004, George Black, The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers, page 204:",
          "text": "\"But a few survive, those with the right genetic trait, the one-percenters that will carry on and reproduce that trait.\"",
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          "ref": "2018, Oliver Bullough, quoting Bradley Birkenfeld, chapter 17, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 243:",
          "text": "I'd perfected my game, flying first-class all over the world, staying in five-star resort hotels, and seducing scores of one-percenters into stashing their fortunes in Swiss numbered accounts, no questions asked.",
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