variants
or high-muckety-muck
as in heavy
one of high position or importance within a group
failed to pass muster with the country club's high-muck-a-mucks
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Noun
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They’re supposed to be the reinforcements, the heavies, personally recruited by Quinn — a fugitive Army Intelligence Colonel! — and installed at Beck’s place, just like Paulie.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025 -
The other students find the burden of imperfect English heavy.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But keeping Towns off the glass, especially with de facto L.A. big Rui Hachimura out tonight, is a big ask for the seven-foot, 220-pound Hayes.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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At 6-foot-7, 225 pounds, Marshall bullies smaller defenders in the paint and feasts on lumbering bigs on the perimeter.—
Stan Son,
The Athletic,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And this does not even factor in living expenses, which account for the lion’s share of college costs.—
Braulio Colón,
Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2025
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Canada’s Leverage Of the 50 critical minerals, Canada owns the lion’s share of production of the top five--lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese—collectively, thanks to its domestic industry and its interest in international mines.—
Dipka Bhambhani,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The lights dim, and a hush falls over the crowd, as the last nawab of Oudh strides onto the stage at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theater.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
22 Nov. 2019
Noun
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Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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His right rear wheel got loose and came off, sending him straight to the outside wall.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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This year, Todd Hurley is Mr. Pat, the parade’s king, and Mary Fischer is Miss Shamrock, the parade’s queen.—
Craig Lassig,
Twin Cities,
19 Mar. 2025
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