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as in big boy
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as in blood brother
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Recent Examples of main man
Charlie Bradbury became a surrogate little sister for the show’s main men, and her death in season 10 was perhaps the most controversial indignity visited on the women of the show.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 May 2024
There is perhaps no worse look to a jury than being exposed as not knowing a critical piece of information, and Dee was about to stomp on Austin’s hopes and dreams worse like my main man Jake stomping on a final immunity challenge contraption.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2023
Shout out to my main man, KC for turning me onto it.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
Tame Impala main man Kevin Parker is recovering from major surgery to correct a fractured hip.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 May 2024
There is perhaps no worse look to a jury than being exposed as not knowing a critical piece of information, and Dee was about to stomp on Austin’s hopes and dreams worse like my main man Jake stomping on a final immunity challenge contraption.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2023
Shout out to my main man, KC for turning me onto it.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
Tame Impala main man Kevin Parker is recovering from major surgery to correct a fractured hip.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
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Unfortunately, very big boy Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees took the crown this season with 58 home runs.Bryan Walsh, Vox, 30 Dec. 2024
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This is going to be a very big boy, free cash flow game.Samantha Subin, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
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Trending The Milli Vanilli story is a lot like how Monsters presents Erik and Lyle: two blood brothers trapped in a miserable lie, with nobody to trust except each other, vulnerable but hiding behind a glam facade.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
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Then there’s 21 Lil Harold, who’s opening for Savage on the tour, and TJ, 23, who might as well be his blood brother.Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
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Things are not that simple, not least because the 2015-16 season was unique in the sense that many of the usual big guns had a stuttering campaign.Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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From there, this group take on up the stairs in search of The Front Man and his charges, with the episode turning into one big gun fight, centered largely around what appears to be a Barbie dream house if it was designed by M. C. Escher.Peter White, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
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Morrison Foerster has announced the arrival of Richard Nugent as a partner in the firm’s global Tax Group, based in the New York office.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Aramark is the stadium’s concessions partner, looking over food service operations like inventory, customer service, food preparation, and food safety and sanitation procedures.Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
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One of the teachers at Abbott, Jacob (played by Chris Perfetti), paid homage to Sajak with his costume, which even included a big wheel.Kayla Caldwell, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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The original penny-farthing bicycle had a big wheel up front with a smaller one out at the back, and was also known as a high-wheel cycle.New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2024
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John Seidler, Peter’s older brother, has been serving in that role on an interim basis awaiting approval of the other major-league owners.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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The house in the western Sydney suburb of Burwood — which the Young brothers (including older brother George, a member of the Easybeats) moved into in 1965 and remained through AC/DC’s formation in 1973 — was previously listed on the National Trust Register of Historic Houses.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
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Namely, many ordinary Indians apparently took enormous glee at the prospect that the sudden invalidation of high-denomination currency notes would put fat cats with large cash holdings in a bind.Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2017
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Poor poll numbers caused panicky Democratic Party oligarchs and fat cat donors to oust him as their candidate.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
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His sister, Soha Ali Khan, is also an actress, while his wife is among Bollywood’s hottest stars, having appeared in the likes of Ajnabee, Chameli, Dev, Omkara, 3 Idiots, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Jaane Jaan, the Netflix title that marked her first streaming release.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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But most of the throng was—like Samir, his parents, his older brother, his younger brother, and their 7-year-old sister—simply terrified of staying behind.Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Main man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/main%20man. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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