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• The Braves, at their best, were the toast of the league.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• The Braves, at their best, were the toast of the league.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• For decades, Apple has been the toast of the creative class.
  — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 8 May 2024
• Voting rights advocates made the Texas Democrats the toast of the town.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• Darvin Ham, just one season after being the toast of the town, is in danger of being toast.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• The Chairman is taking the Fed into uncharted waters, and the toast of the town one day can become the scapegoat the next.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• His cricket future remains up in the air, but Hobson sure will be the toast of the office on his first day back at work.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• A week later, Hrusovsky was again the toast of the ballpark after a Gonzalez walk-off hit beat the Yankees.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• Mulkey, well known for her glitzy outfits and Hall of Famer career, is once again the toast of Louisiana.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Gosling, who was flanked by Robbie, was the toast of the show, introducing the term Ken-ergy that has become a buzzword.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• Coco Gauff is the toast of tennis — and Delray Beach, Florida!
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Riseborough plays Leslie, who, once upon a time, was the toast of the town after winning a lottery jackpot.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023
• This year’s Jazz are the toast of the NBA right now, having earned an incredible 6-3 record despite a pretty tough schedule.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Despite his lack of nomination, Messi, whose character in the film was named Snoop, has been the toast of awards season.
  — Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• That’s intimidating company, but based on the reviews out of London, where this West End production was the toast of the town, Scherzinger nailed it.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• In Davos — where China’s rise has so often been the toast of the town, celebrated by admiring politicians and financiers — Beijing seemed almost the sick man of the global economy.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• Sanders was the toast of college football after his incredible roster flip — 68 new scholarship players on the roster — was on full display.
  — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• Chip companies were the toast of the U.S. stock market in 2023, largely driven by demand for technologies to enhance their AI capabilities.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 21 Jan. 2024
• In the early 2000s, Beyoncé was the toast of the Grammys, when Destiny’s Child and her early solo work began regularly earning trophies.
  — Vulture, 3 Feb. 2023
• The beating and his drinking hastened his decline, leaving the chiseled champ who was once the toast of the gay clubs now living in a cluttered efficiency apartment on Long Island with his trophies and championship belts in storage bags.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Lou, conversely, was the toast of the town: an institution-building entrepreneur and voluble drinking buddy known for wearing loud turtlenecks, cracking ribald jokes and eating like a barn animal.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024